Leviticus 13:1–14

SKIN DISEASES

13The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: ²“When a person has a swelling,^D scab,^E or spot on the skin of his body, and it may be a serious disease on the skin^a of his body, he is to be brought to the priest Aaron or to one of his sons, the priests. ³The priest will examine the sore^b on the skin of his body. If the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is in fact a serious skin disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean. ⁴But if the spot on the skin of his body is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest will quarantine the stricken person for seven days.^{c 5}The priest will then reexamine him on the seventh day. If he sees that the sore remains unchanged and has not spread on the skin, the priest will quarantine him for another seven days. ⁶The priest will examine him again on the seventh day. If the sore has faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest is to pronounce him clean;^d it is a scab. The person is to wash his clothes and will become clean. ⁷But if the scab spreads further on his skin after he has presented himself to the priest for his cleansing,^e he is to present himself again to the priest. ⁸The priest will examine him, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest must pronounce him unclean; he has a serious skin disease.

⁹“When a case of serious skin disease may have developed on a person, he is to be brought to the priest. ¹⁰The priest will examine him. If there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling, ¹¹it is a chronic serious disease on the skin of his body, and the priest must pronounce him unclean.^f He need not quarantine him, for he is unclean. ¹²But if the skin disease breaks out all over the skin so that it covers all the skin of the stricken person from his head to his feet so far as the priest can see, ¹³the priest will look, and if the skin disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the stricken person clean.^g Since he has turned totally white, he is clean. ¹⁴But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean.