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Leviticus 13:40–41

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Baldness on the Head

13:40“When a man’s head is bare so that he is balding in back,110 he is clean. 13:41If his head is bare on the forehead111 so that he is balding in front,112 he is clean.

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Footnotes

  1. 110 Heb “And a man, when his head is rubbed bare, he is bald-headed.” The translation offered here, referring to the back of the head (i.e., the area from the top of the head sloping backwards), is based on the contrast between this condition and that of the following verse. See also B. A. Levine, Leviticus (), .
  2. 111 Heb “And if from the front edge of his face, his head is rubbed bare.” See the note on v. above.
  3. 112 The rendering “balding in front” corresponds to the location of the bareness at the beginning of the verse.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“If a man’s hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean. And if a man’s hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“A man who has lost his hair and is bald is clean. If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“If a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald, but he is clean. Or if he loses the hair at his hairline, he is bald on his forehead, but he is clean.

NLTNew Living Translation

“If a man loses his hair and his head becomes bald, he is still ceremonially clean. And if he loses hair on his forehead, he simply has a bald forehead; he is still clean.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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

KJV 1900King James Version

And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean. And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.