Discovery BoxLeviticus 13:50 
Context13:50 The priest is to examine and then quarantine the article with the infection for seven days. 1
Leviticus 13:49
Context13:49 if the infection 2 in the garment or leather or warp or woof or any article of leather is yellowish green or reddish, it is a diseased infection and it must be shown to the priest.
Leviticus 13:52-53
Context13:52 He must burn the garment or the warp or the woof, whether wool or linen, or any article of leather which has the infection in it. Because it is a malignant disease it must be burned up in the fire. 13:53 But if the priest examines it and 3 the infection has not spread in the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather,
Leviticus 13:57-59
Context13:57 Then if 4 it still appears again in the garment or the warp or the woof, or in any article of leather, it is an outbreak. Whatever has the infection in it you must burn up in the fire. 13:58 But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it 5 is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”
13:59 This is the law 6 of the diseased infection in the garment of wool or linen, or the warp or woof, or any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean. 7
Leviticus 11:32
Context11:32 Also, anything they fall on 8 when they die will become unclean – any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water 9 and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.
Leviticus 13:51
Context13:51 He must then examine the infection on the seventh day. If the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather – whatever the article into which the leather was made 10 – the infection is a malignant disease. It is unclean.
Leviticus 13:55
Context13:55 The priest must then examine it after the infection has been washed out, and if 11 the infection has not changed its appearance 12 even though the infection has not spread, it is unclean. You must burn it up in the fire. It is a fungus, whether on the back side or front side of the article. 13
1 tn Heb “And the priest shall see the infection and he shall shut up the infection seven days.”
2 tn Heb “and the infection is.” This clause is conditional in force, and is translated as such by almost all English versions.
3 tn Heb “And if the priest sees and behold”; NASB “and indeed.”
4 tn Heb “And if”; NIV, NCV “But if”; NAB “If, however.”
5 tn Heb “and the infection turns aside from them.”
6 sn The Hebrew term translated “law” (תוֹרָה, torah) introduces here a summary or colophon for all of Lev 13. Similar summaries are found in Lev 7:37-38; 11:46-47; 14:54-57; and 15:32-33.
7 tn These are declarative Piel forms of the verbs טָהֵר (taher) and טָמֵא (tame’) respectively (cf. the notes on vv. 3 and 6 above).
8 tn Heb “And all which it shall fall on it from them.”
9 tn Heb “in water it shall be brought.”
10 tn Heb “to all which the leather was made into a handiwork.”
11 tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).
12 tn Heb “the infection has not changed its eye.” Smr has “its/his eyes,” as in vv. 5 and 37, but here it refers to the appearance of the article of cloth or leather, unlike vv. 5 and 37 where there is a preposition attached and it refers to the eyes of the priest.
13 tn The terms “back side” and “front side” are the same as those used in v. 42 for the “back or front bald area” of a man’s head. The exact meaning of these terms when applied to articles of cloth or leather is uncertain. It could refer, for example, to the inside versus the outside of a garment, or the back versus the front side of an article of cloth or leather. See J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:814, for various possibilities.
