Leviticus 13:6

The priest must then examine it again on the seventh day, ¹  and if ²  the infection has faded and has not spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person clean. ³  It is a scab, ⁴  so he must wash his clothes ⁵  and be clean.

Le 11:25,28,40; Le 13:2; Le 14:8; De 32:5; 1Ki 8:38,45; Ps 19:12; Pr 20:9; Ec 7:20; Isa 11:3,4; Isa 42:3; Joh 13:8-10; Ro 14:1; 2Co 7:1; Heb 9:10; Heb 10:22; Jas 3:2; 1Jo 1:7-9; Jude 1:22,23

¹ tn That is, at the end of the second set of seven days referred to at the end of v. 5, a total of fourteen days after the first appearance before the priest.

² tn Heb “and behold.”

³ tn Heb “he shall make him clean.” The verb is the Piel of טָהֵר (taher, “to be clean”). Here it is a so-called “declarative” Piel (i.e., “to declare clean”), but it also implies that the person is put into the category of being “clean” by the pronouncement itself (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 176; cf. the corresponding opposite in v. 3 above).

⁴ tn On the term “scab” see the note on v. 2 above. Cf. NAB “it was merely eczema”; NRSV “only an eruption”; NLT “only a temporary rash.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he shall wash his clothes.”