9Whenever someone has an infection of skin disease, they will be brought to the priest. 10If the priest sees that there is a white swelling on the skin, it has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling, 11then it is a case of chronic skin disease on their skin. The priest will declare the person unclean. The priest will not quarantine such persons, because they are already unclean. 12But if the skin disease continues to break out so that the disease covers all of the infected person's skin from head to toe, as far as the priest can tell--13then the priest will make an examination. If the skin disease has covered the person's whole body, the priest will declare the infected person clean. The person has turned entirely white; he is clean. 14But as soon as raw flesh appears in the swelling, they will be unclean. 15When the priest sees the raw flesh, he will declare the person unclean. Raw flesh is unclean; it is a case of skin disease. 16But if the raw flesh turns white again, the person will go back to the priest. 17The priest will examine it. If the infection has turned white, the priest will declare the infected person clean; at that point, the person is clean.
18Whenever someone has a boil on their skin, it heals, 19and in place of the boil there is a white swelling or reddish-white shiny spot, it must be shown to the priest. 20If the priest sees that it appears to be lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest will declare the person unclean. It is an infection of skin disease that has broken out in the boil. 21But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in it, it is not lower than the skin, and it is faded, the priest will quarantine the person seven days. 22If it continues to spread over the skin, the priest will declare the person unclean; it is an infection. 23But if the shiny spot remains where it was and does not spread, it is just a scar from the boil. The priest will declare the person clean.
24Whenever there is a burn on someone's skin, and the raw patch of the burn becomes a reddish-white or white shiny spot, 25the priest will examine it. If the hair has turned white in the shiny spot, and it appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a case of skin disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest will declare the person unclean; it is an infection of skin disease. 26But if the priest examines it, and there is no white hair in the shiny spot, it is not lower than the skin, and it is faded, the priest will quarantine the person seven days. 27On the seventh day the priest will again examine it. If it has continued to spread over the skin, the priest will declare the person unclean; it is an infection of skin disease. 28But if the shiny spot remains where it was, has not spread over the skin, and is faded, it is just swelling from the burn. The priest will declare the person clean, because it is just the scar from the burn.
29Whenever a man or woman has an infection, whether on the head or in the beard, 30the priest will examine it. If it appears to be deeper than the skin, and there is thin yellow hair in it, the priest will declare the person unclean; it is a case of scabies--a skin disease of the head or beard. 31When the priest examines the scabies infection, if it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, but there is no black hair in it, the priest will quarantine the person with the scabies infection for seven days. 32On the seventh day the priest will examine the infection again. If the scabies has not spread, there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, 33the person must shave the area, without shaving the scabies. The priest will then quarantine that person another seven days. 34On the seventh day the priest will again examine the scabies. If it has not spread over the skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest will declare the person clean. They must wash their clothes; then they will be clean again. 35But if the scabies continues to spread over the skin after the person's purification, 36the priest must examine it again. If the scabies has spread over the skin at all, the priest does not need to look for the yellow hair; the person is unclean. 37But if the priest sees that the scabies has remained the same, and black hair has grown in it, the scabies has healed. The person is clean, and the priest will declare them to be so.
38Whenever a man or woman has many white shiny spots on their skin, 39if the priest sees that there are faded white shiny spots on the skin of the body, it is just a rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.
40If someone loses their hair, they are bald, but they are clean. 41If the hair is lost at the sides of the forehead, the person has a receding hairline, but they are clean. 42But whenever there is a reddish-white infection in the bald spot or in the receding hairline, it is a case of skin disease breaking out there. 43The priest must examine it. If the swelling of the infection is reddish white in the bald spot or receding hairline and resembles skin disease on the body, 44the person is afflicted with skin disease; they are unclean. The priest must declare them unclean on account of the head infection.
45Anyone with an infection of skin disease must wear torn clothes, dishevel their hair, cover their upper lip, and shout out, "Unclean! Unclean!"46They will be unclean as long as they are infected. They are unclean. They must live alone outside the camp.
Articles with skin disease
47Whenever there is an infection of skin disease on clothing--on wool or linen clothing, 48in the weaving of the linen or wool, or on a skin or skin item--49and the infection is greenish or reddish on the clothing, the weaving, or the skin or skin item, it is an infection of skin disease. It must be shown to the priest. 50The priest will examine the infection and quarantine the infected item seven days. 51On the seventh day he will examine the infection again. If the infection has spread in the clothing, the weaving, or the skin, whatever it is used for, the infection is a case of infectious skin disease; the item is unclean. 52The priest will burn the clothing, the weaving of the wool or linen, or whatever skin item in which the infection was found, because it is an infectious skin disease; it must be burned with fire.
53But if the priest sees that the infection has not spread in the clothing, the weaving, or on any skin item, 54the priest will order that the infected piece be washed, and he will quarantine it for another seven days. 55After it has been washed, if the priest sees that the infection has not changed its appearance, even though the infection has not spread, it is unclean. You must burn it with fire. It is a fungus,z whether it is on the inside or outside.
56But if, after it is washed, the priest sees that the infection has faded, he will tear the infected part out of the cloth, the weaving, or the skin. 57If it appears again in the cloth, the weaving, or any item of skin, it is starting to break out. You must burn the infected item with fire. 58But if the infection disappears from the cloth, the weaving, or any item of skin that you washed, it must be washed again. Then it will be clean.
59This concludes the Instruction about the infection of skin disease in a woolen or linen cloth, weaving, or any skin item, in order to declare whether it is clean or unclean.
Persons with skin disease
Leviticus 14The LORD said to Moses, 2This will be the Instruction for anyone with skin diseasea at the time of purification: When it has been reported to the priest, 3he will go outside the camp. If the priest sees that the person afflicted with skin disease has been healed of the infection, 4the priest will order that two birds--wildb and clean--and cedarwood, crimson yarn, and hyssop be brought for the person who needs purification. 5The priest will order that one bird be slaughtered over fresh water in a pottery jar. 6He will then take the other wild bird, along with the cedarwood, crimson yarn, and hyssop, and will dip all of this into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water. 7He will sprinkle the person who needs purification from skin disease seven times and declare that they are clean. Then the priest will release the wild bird into the countryside. 8The