Regulations About Defiling Skin Diseases

¹ Then¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

1. Or “And”

² “When a ⌞person⌟¹ has on his body’s skin a swelling or an epidermal eruption or a spot and it becomes² an infectious skin disease on his body’s skin, then³ he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

1. Literally “man”
2. Perfect of הָיָה followed by לְ; see HALOT 244 s.v. 7.c
3. Or “and”

³ And the priest shall examine the infection on his body’s skin, and if the hair in the infection turns white and the appearance of the infection is deeper than his body’s skin, it is an infectious skin disease, and the priest shall examine it, and he shall declare him unclean.

⁴ But¹ if a spot is white on his body’s skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin and its hair does not turn white, then² the priest shall confine the afflicted person for seven days.

1. Or “And”
2. Or “and”

⁵ And the priest shall examine it on the seventh day, and ⌞if⌟,¹ in his eyes, the infection has stayed unchanged, the infection has not spread on the skin, then² the priest shall confine him for seven days a second time.

1. Literally “look” or “behold”
2. Or “and”

⁶ And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day for a second time, and ⌞if⌟¹ the infection has faded and the infection has not spread on the skin, then² the priest shall declare him clean—it is an epidermal eruption; and he shall wash his garments, and so he shall be clean.

1. Literally “look” or “behold”
2. Or “and”

⁷ But¹ if the epidermal eruption spreads further on the skin after showing himself to the priest for his cleansing, then² he shall appear a second time to the priest.

1. Or “And”
2. Or “and”

⁸ And the priest shall examine it,¹ and ⌞if⌟² the epidermal eruption has spread on the skin, then³ the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease.

1. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. Literally “look” or “behold”
3. Or “and”

⁹ “When an infectious skin disease is on a person and he is brought to the priest,

¹⁰ the priest shall examine it,¹ and ⌞if⌟² a white swelling is on the skin and it turns the hair white and ⌞raw flesh⌟³ is in the swelling,

1. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. Literally “look” or “behold”
3. Literally “living of living flesh”

¹¹ it is a chronic infectious skin disease on his body’s skin, and the priest shall declare him unclean; he shall not confine him, because he is unclean.

¹² And if the infectious skin disease breaks out all over on the skin and the infectious skin disease covers all of the afflicted person’s skin from his head to his feed, ⌞so far as the priest can see⌟,¹

1. Literally “for all the sight of the eyes of the priest”

¹³ then¹ the priest shall examine it,² and ⌞if⌟³ the infectious skin disease covers his whole body, then⁴ he shall pronounce the afflicted person clean—all of it has turned white; he is clean.

1. Or “and”
2. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
3. Literally “look” or “behold”
4. Or “and”

¹⁴ But¹ ⌞whenever⌟² ⌞raw flesh⌟³ appears on him, he shall become unclean.

1. Or “And”
2. Literally “on a day”
3. Literally “living flesh”

¹⁵ And the priest shall examine the ⌞raw flesh⌟,¹ and he shall pronounce him unclean—the ⌞raw flesh⌟² is unclean; it is an infectious skin disease.

1. Literally “living flesh”
2. Literally “living flesh”

¹⁶ Or, when the ⌞raw flesh⌟¹ returns and it has changed to white, then² he shall come to the priest,

1. Literally “living flesh”
2. Or “and”

¹⁷ and the priest shall examine him, and ⌞if⌟¹ the infection has changed to white, then² the priest shall pronounce the afflicted person clean—he is clean.

1. Literally “look” or “behold”
2. Or “and”

¹⁸ “And when someone’s body ⌞has⌟¹ a skin sore on his skin and it is healed

1. Literally “becomes on it”

¹⁹ and a white swelling or a ⌞pinkish⌟¹ spot appears in the skin sore’s place, then² he shall show himself to the priest.

1. Literally “white red”
2. Or “and”

²⁰ And the priest shall examine it,¹ and ⌞if⌟² its appearance is deeper than the skin and its hair has changed to white, then³ the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease; it has broken out in the skin sore.

1. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
2. Literally “look” or “behold”
3. Or “and”

²¹ And if the priest examines it and ⌞if⌟¹ there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, then² the priest shall confine him for seven days.

1. Literally “look” or “behold”
2. Or “and”

²² But¹ if it has spread further on the skin, then² the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infection.

1. Or “And”
2. Or “and”

²³ But¹ if the spot has stayed unchanged, it has not spread, it is the skin sore’s scar, so² the priest shall declare him clean.

1. Or “And”
2. Or “and”

²⁴ “Or when a body ⌞has⌟¹ a burn-spot ⌞from⌟² fire on its skin and the ⌞raw flesh⌟³ of the burn-spot is ⌞pinkish⌟⁴ or white,

1. Literally “it becomes”
2. Literally “of”
3. Literally “living”
4. Literally “white red”

²⁵ then¹ the priest shall examine it, and ⌞if⌟² the hair turns white in the spot and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is an infectious skin disease—it has broken out in the burn-spot; so³ the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease.

1. Or “and”
2. Literally “look” or “behold”
3. Or “and”

²⁶ But¹ if the priest examines it and ⌞if⌟² there is not white hair in the spot and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, then³ the priest shall confine him for seven days.

1. Or “And”
2. Literally “look” or “behold”
3. Or “and”

²⁷ And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it has spread further on the skin, then¹ the priest shall declare him unclean—it is an infectious skin disease.

1. Or “and”

²⁸ But¹ if it the spot has stayed unchanged in its place, it has not spread on the skin and it is faded, then it is the burn-spot’s swelling, so² the priest shall declare him clean, because it is the burn-spot’s scar.

1. Or “And”
2. Or “and”

²⁹ “And when a man or a woman ⌞has⌟¹ an infection on the head or in the beard,

1. Literally “becomes on him”

³⁰ then¹ the priest shall examine the infection, and ⌞if⌟² its appearance is deeper than the skin and in it is thin bright red hair, then³ the priest shall declare it unclean—it is a diseased area of skin; it is an infectious skin disease of the head or the beard.

1. Or “and”
2. Literally “look” or “behold”
3. Or “and”

³¹ But¹ if the priest examines the diseased area of the skin’s infection and ⌞if⌟² its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then³ the priest shall confine the afflicted person with the diseased area of skin for seven days.

1. Or “And”
2. Literally “look” or “behold”
3. Or “and”

³² And the priest shall examine the infection on the seventh day, and ⌞if⌟¹ the diseased area of skin has not spread and it does not have bright red hair in it and the diseased area of the skin’s appearance is not deeper than the skin,

1. Literally “look” or “behold”

³³ then¹ he shall shave himself, but² he shall not shave the diseased area of skin, and the priest shall confine the person with³ the diseased area of skin a second time for seven days.

1. Or “and”
2. Or “and”
3. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

³⁴ And the priest shall examine the diseased area of skin on the seventh day, and ⌞if⌟¹ the diseased area has not spread on the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then² the priest shall pronounce him clean, and he shall wash his garments, and he shall be clean.

1. Literally “look” or “behold”
2. Or “and”

³⁵ But¹ if the diseased area of skin has not spread further on the skin after his cleansing,

1. Or “And”

³⁶ then¹ the priest shall examine him, and ⌞if⌟² the diseased area of skin has spread on the skin, the priest shall not inspect for bright³ red hair—he is unclean.

1. Or “and”
2. Literally “look” or “behold”
3. Hebrew “the bright”

³⁷ But¹ if, in his eyes, the diseased area of skin has stayed unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the diseased area of skin is healed—he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

1. Or “And”

³⁸ “And when a man or a woman ⌞has⌟¹ spots on their body’s skin, white spots,

1. Literally “becomes”

³⁹ then¹ the priest shall examine them,² and ⌞if⌟³ the spots on their body’s skin are a faded white, it is a skin rash; it has broken out on the skin—it is clean.

1. Or “and”
2. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
3. Literally “look” or “behold”

⁴⁰ “And if a man becomes bald, his head is bald, he is clean.

⁴¹ And if he becomes bald ⌞from his forehead⌟,¹ his head is bald, he is clean.

1. Literally “from the forehead of his face”

⁴² But¹ if a ⌞pinkish⌟² infection occurs³ on the bald spot or on the bald forehead, it is an infectious skin disease that sprouts on his bald spot or on his bald forehead.