Examining Afflictions

1 And the Lord spoke with Moses and with Aaron, saying: 2 A man who has a depression, a scab, or a bright spot on his skin that develops into an affliction requiring isolation shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests. 3 And the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the flesh, and if the hair in the affected spot has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the lesion requiring isolation;⁠a and the priest shall inspect him and declare him unclean. 4 But if there is a bright spot in the skin of his flesh, and it does not appear deeper than the skin, and the hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the affected man for seven days. 5 And on the seventh day the priest shall inspect him, and if the plague stands as it did, if the plague has not increased in the skin, let the priest isolate him for another seven days. 6 And the priest shall examine him after the second seven days; and if the plague has faded, and the plague has not spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; it is a sore, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. 7 But if the diseased spot spreads again in the skin after having been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be brought a second time to the priest. 8 And if the priest examines him and sees that the sore has spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is the affliction requiring isolation. 9 When the lesion requiring isolation is in a man, let him be brought to the priest. 10 And the priest shall inspect him, and if the depression is white in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a sign of living tissue in the depression, 11 it is a chronic affliction requiring isolation in the skin of the flesh, and the priest shall declare him unclean, but shall not isolate him to determine his uncleanness, for he is unclean. 12 And if the affliction requiring isolation spreads in the skin, and it covers all the skin of the affected man from his head to his feet, wherever the eyes of the priest may look, 13 the priest shall observe, and if the affliction requiring isolation covers all his flesh, the affected man shall be declared clean; the whole of him is turned white, he is clean. 14 But on the day that living tissue appears in him he shall be unclean; 15 and the priest shall observe the living tissue, and declare him unclean. The living tissue is unclean, it is the affliction requiring isolation. 16 But if the living tissue turns white, he shall come to the priest; 17 and the priest shall observe, and if the plague is turned white, the priest shall declare the affected man clean; he is clean. 18 And if a man has had an ulcer on his skin and it has healed, 19 but in the place of the ulcer there appears a white depression, or a bright spot, reddish-white, let him show it to the priest, 20 and the priest shall inspect, and if the appearance of it is deeper than the skin, and the hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is the lesion requiring isolation increasing in the ulcer. 21 But if the priest examines it and sees that the hair is not white, and it is not lower than the skin, and it has faded, the priest shall isolate him for seven days; 22 and if it spreads in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is the plague. 23 But if the spot remains in its place, and does not spread, it is the scar of an ulcer, and the priest shall declare him clean. 24 Or, if a man has in his skin a burning wound, and there is the sign of a glowing wound whitish-red or completely white, 25 the priest shall examine it, and if the hair is white in the bright spot, and the appearance is deeper than the skin, it is an affliction requiring isolation increasing in the wound, and the priest shall declare him unclean; it is the lesion requiring isolation. 26 But if the priest examines it and sees that the hair is not white in the spot, and it is not deeper than the skin, and is fading, the priest shall isolate him for seven days. 27 And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it spreads in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is the lesion requiring isolation. 28 But if the spot remains in its place, and does not spread in the skin, but has faded, it is only a burning sore, and the priest shall declare him clean, for it is the sign of an inflammation. 29 And if a man or a woman has a plague on the head, or in the beard, 30 the priest shall inspect the plague, and if the appearance is deeper than the skin, and there is in it a thin reddish hair, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a scaly patch, it is an affliction requiring isolation in the head or the beard. 31 And if the priest examines the lesion in the scaly patch and sees that its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is not black, the priest shall isolate the person with the affected scaly patch for seven days. 32 And the priest shall inspect the plague on the seventh day; and if the scaly patch has not spread, and there is no reddish hair in it, and the appearance of the scaly patch is not deeper than the skin, 33 he must shave around the scaly patch; but he must not shave the spot itself; and the priest shall isolate the person with the scaly patch for another seven days. 34 And the priest shall examine the scaly patch on the seventh day, and if the scaly patch has not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. 35 But if the scaly patch spreads in the skin after he has been declared clean, 36 the priest shall inspect him, and if the scaly patch has spread in the skin, the priest need not look for the reddish hair; he is unclean. 37 But if the scaly patch remains as it was, and black hair has grown in it, the scaly patch has healed, he is clean, and the priest shall declare him clean. 38 And if a man or a woman has in the skin of their flesh bright white spots, 39 then the priest shall look, and if the spots in the skin of their flesh are dull white, it is a freckle growing in the skin; he is clean. 40 And if a man's hair falls out from his head, he is bald, but he is clean. 41 And if the hair of his head falls out toward his face, he is partly bald, but is clean. 42 But if in the baldness or partial baldness there is a whitish red scar, it is an affliction requiring isolation growing in the baldness or partial baldness. 43 Then the priest shall look, and if the plague spot is whitish red in the baldness or the partial baldness, as the appearance of affliction requiring isolation in the skin of the flesh, 44 the man requires isolation, he is unclean; and the priest shall certainly declare him unclean; his plague is in his head. 45 And the person requiring isolation who has the affliction shall have his clothes torn, and his head bared; and, like the mourner, he shall be covered up to his lip, and shall cry: Do not become unclean! Do not become unclean! 46 He shall be unclean for as long as the affliction is on him; he is unclean; he shall live apart, with his home outside the camp.

Afflictions in Clothing

47 The garment which has the lesion requiring isolation in it, whether it is in a garment of wool or of linen, 48 whether in the warp or in the weft of linen or of wool, or in leather, or anything made of skin: 49 if the plague is green or red in the garment or in the skin, whether in the warp, or in the weft, or in anything of skin, it is a lesion requiring isolation, and must be shown to the priest. 50 And the priest shall look at the plague, and isolate it for seven days. 51 And he shall look at the plague on the seventh day; if the plague has spread in the garment, whether in the warp or in the weft, or in a skin, or anything made of skin for work, it is a spreading affliction requiring isolation, it is unclean. 52 And he shall burn the garment, whether it is in warp or weft, of wool, or of linen, or anything made of skin, which has the plague in it; for it is a spreading affliction requiring isolation; he shall burn it in fire. 53 But if the priest examines it and sees that the plague has not spread in the garment, whether in warp or weft, or in anything of skin; 54 then the priest shall direct, and they shall wash the affected article, and he shall isolate it for another seven days. 55 And the priest shall look after they have washed the plague, and if the appearance of the affliction has not changed from what it was, and the plague has not spread, it is nevertheless unclean; you shall burn it with fire, it is a damaged spot, whether on its inner or outer side. 56 And if the priest examines it and sees that the plague has faded after they have washed it, he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or of the weft. 57 And if it reappears in the garment, in warp or weft, or spreads in any vessel of skin, you shall burn in fire anything that has the plague in it. 58 And the garment, or warp, or weft, or anything of skin which has been washed, and the plague has gone from it, shall be dipped the second time, and shall be clean. 59 This is the law for the lesion requiring isolation in a garment of wool or linen, in the warp or the weft, or anything of skin, to declare it clean or unclean.