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Monday, July 28th, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Green's Literal Translation

Leviticus 13:44

he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Defilement;   Sanitation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Head;   Leprosy;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Leprosy;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Leper;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hair;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Leper;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Leper;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The Kohen shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
King James Version
He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
Lexham English Bible
he is a man afflicted with a skin disease—he is unclean; the priest certainly shall declare him unclean—his infection is on his head.
New Century Version
that person has a skin disease. He is unclean. The priest must announce that the person is unclean because of the sore on his head.
New English Translation
he is a diseased man. He is unclean. The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his infection on his head.
Amplified Bible
he is a leprous man; he is unclean; the priest shall most certainly pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.
New American Standard Bible
he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He is a leper and vncleane: therefore the Priest shall pronounce him altogether vncleane: for the sore is in his head.
Legacy Standard Bible
he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.
Contemporary English Version
"This is leprosy—you are unclean."
Complete Jewish Bible
he is a person with tzara‘at; he is unclean; the cohen must declare him unclean; the sore is on his head.
Darby Translation
he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his sore is in his head.
Easy-to-Read Version
then he has leprosy on his scalp. The person is unclean. The priest must announce that he is unclean.
English Standard Version
he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.
George Lamsa Translation
He is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; for the disease is on his head.
Good News Translation
the priest shall pronounce you unclean, because of the dreaded skin disease on your head.
Christian Standard Bible®
the man is afflicted with a serious skin disease; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; the infection is on his head.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
therfore is he a leporous man and vncleane. And the prest shall iudge him vncleane, because of ye same sore vpo his heade.
American Standard Version
he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.
Bible in Basic English
He is a leper and unclean; the priest is to say that he is most certainly unclean: the disease is in his head.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then he is a leprous man & vncleane: And the priest shal make him vncleane, for the plague therof is in his head.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean: his plague is in his head.
King James Version (1611)
Hee is a leprous man, he is vncleane: the Priest shall pronounce him vtterly vncleane, his plague is in his head.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
he is a leprous man: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean, his plague is in his head.
English Revised Version
he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.
Berean Standard Bible
the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor whoeuer is defoulid with lepre, and is departid at the doom of the preest,
Young's Literal Translation
he [is] a leprous man, he [is] unclean; the priest doth pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his head.
Update Bible Version
he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.
Webster's Bible Translation
He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his head.
World English Bible
he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.
New King James Version
he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his sore is on his head.
New Living Translation
the man is indeed infected with a skin disease and is unclean. The priest must pronounce him ceremonially unclean because of the sore on his head.
New Life Bible
he is a man with a bad skin disease. He is unclean. The religious leader will say he is unclean. His disease is on his head.
New Revised Standard
he is leprous, he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean; the disease is on his head.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
a leprous man, is he, unclean, he is, - unclean, shall the priest pronounce him in his head, is his plague.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now whosoever shall be defiled with the leprosy, and is separated by the judgment of the priest:
Revised Standard Version
he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.

Contextual Overview

38 And when a man or a woman has bright spots, white bright spots, in the skin of their flesh, 39 and the priest has seen it; and, behold there are pale white spots in the skin of their flesh, it is a pale spot springing up in the skin; he is clean. 40 And when a man's head grows bald, he is bald, he is clean. 41 And if his head grows bald from the corner of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald; he is clean. 42 And if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish white plague, it is a leprosy breaking out in the bald head, or in the bald forehead. 43 And the priest shall look on him, and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy, in the skin of the flesh, 44 he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head. 45 And the leper who has the plague in him, his garments shall be torn, and his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover the upper lip; and he shall call out, Unclean! Unclean! 46 And the days that the plague shall be in him, he is unclean; he shall live alone, he is unclean; his dwelling shall be at the outside of the camp.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

utterly unclean: Job 36:14, Matthew 6:23, 2 Peter 2:1, 2 Peter 2:2, 2 John 1:8-10

his plague: Isaiah 1:5

Reciprocal: Leviticus 22:4 - a leper 2 Samuel 3:29 - an issue 2 Kings 5:1 - a leper Isaiah 3:17 - smite Matthew 8:2 - a leper

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean,.... And so to be pronounced and accounted; only a leprous man is mentioned, there being no leprous women, having this sort of leprosy, their hair not falling off, or they becoming bald, usually; unless, as Ben Gersom observes, in a manner strange and wonderful:

the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; as in any other case of leprosy:

his plague [is] in his head; an emblem of such who have imbibed bad notions and erroneous principles, and are therefore, like the leper, to be avoided and rejected from the communion of the saints, Titus 3:10; and shows that men are accountable for their principles as well as practices, and liable to be punished for them.


 
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