Leviticus 13:18

THE MESSAGE

"When a person has a boil and it heals and in place of the boil there is white swelling or a reddish-white shiny spot, the person must present himself to the priest for an examination. If it looks like it has penetrated the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is a serious skin disease that has broken out in the boil. But if the examination shows that there is no white hair in it and it is only skin deep and has faded, the priest will put him in quarantine for seven days. If it then spreads over the skin, the priest will diagnose him as unclean. It is infectious. But if the shiny spot has not changed and hasn't spread, it's only a scar from the boil. The priest will pronounce him clean.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,

King James Version
The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,

Lexham English Bible
"And when someone's body has a skin sore on his skin and it is healed

New Century Version
"Someone may have a boil on his skin that is healed.

New English Translation
"When someone's body has a boil on its skin and it heals,

Amplified Bible
"And when there is on the skin of the body [the scar of] a boil that is healed,

New American Standard Bible
"Now when the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,

Geneva Bible (1587)
The flesh also in whose skin there is a bile and is healed,

Legacy Standard Bible
"When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,

Contemporary English Version
If you have a sore that either swells or turns reddish-white after it has healed, then you must show it to a priest.

Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: iii) "If a person has on his skin a boil that heals

Darby Translation
And the flesh—when in the skin thereof cometh a boil, and it is healed,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Someone might get a boil on their skin that heals over.

English Standard Version
"If there is in the skin of one's body a boil and it heals,

George Lamsa Translation
The flesh also, if there is in the skin thereof a boil and it is healed,

Good News Translation
If any of you have a boil that has healed

Christian Standard Bible®
“When a boil appears on the skin of someone’s body and it heals,

Literal Translation
And when the flesh has a boil in its skin, and it has been healed,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan there is a byle in the ßkynne of eny mans flesh, and healeth agayne,

American Standard Version
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,

Bible in Basic English
And if a bad place has come out on the skin and is well again,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The fleshe also in whose skinne there is a byle, and is healed,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,

King James Version (1611)
The flesh also, in which, euen in the skinne thereof was a bile, and is healed,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if the flesh should have become an ulcer in his skin, and should be healed,

English Revised Version
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,

Berean Standard Bible
When a boil appears on someone's skin and it heals,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Fleisch and skyn, in which a botche is bred,

Young's Literal Translation
`And when flesh hath in it, in its skin, an ulcer, and it hath been healed,

Update Bible Version
And when the flesh has a boil on it, and it is healed,

Webster's Bible Translation
The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin of it, was a boil, and is healed,

World English Bible
"When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,

New King James Version
"If the body develops a boil in the skin, and it is healed,

New Living Translation
"If anyone has a boil on the skin that has started to heal,

New Life Bible
"When there is a sore on the skin of the body that has been healed,

New Revised Standard
When there is on the skin of one's body a boil that has healed,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, any one's flesh, hath, in the skin thereof, a boil, - and then it is healed;

Douay-Rheims Bible
When also there has been an ulcer in the flesh and the skin, and it has been healed:

Revised Standard Version
"And when there is in the skin of one's body a boil that has healed,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,

Contextual Overview

¹⁸"When a person has a boil and it heals and in place of the boil there is white swelling or a reddish-white shiny spot, the person must present himself to the priest for an examination. If it looks like it has penetrated the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is a serious skin disease that has broken out in the boil. But if the examination shows that there is no white hair in it and it is only skin deep and has faded, the priest will put him in quarantine for seven days. If it then spreads over the skin, the priest will diagnose him as unclean. It is infectious. But if the shiny spot has not changed and hasn't spread, it's only a scar from the boil. The priest will pronounce him clean. ²⁴"When a person has a burn on his skin and the raw flesh turns into a reddish-white or white shiny spot, the priest is to examine it. If the hair has turned white in the shiny spot and it looks like it's more than skin deep, a serious skin disease has erupted in the area of the burn. The priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a serious skin disease and infectious. But if on examination there is no white hair in the shiny spot and it doesn't look to be more than skin deep but has faded, the priest will put him in quarantine for seven days. On the seventh day the priest will reexamine him. If by then it has spread over the skin, the priest will diagnose him as unclean; it is a serious skin disease and infectious. If by that time the shiny spot has stayed the same and has not spread but has faded, it is only a swelling from the burn. The priest will pronounce him clean; it's only a scar from the burn. ²⁹"If a man or woman develops a sore on the head or chin, the priest will offer a diagnosis. If it looks as if it is under the skin and the hair in it is yellow and thin, he will pronounce the person ritually unclean. It is an itch, an infectious skin disease. But if when he examines the itch, he finds it is only skin deep and there is no black hair in it, he will put the person in quarantine for seven days. On the seventh day he will reexamine the sore; if the itch has not spread, there is no yellow hair in it, and it looks as if the itch is only skin deep, the person must shave, except for the itch; the priest will send him back to quarantine for another seven days. If the itch has not spread, and looks to be only skin deep, the priest will pronounce him clean. The person can go home and wash his clothes; he is clean. But if the itch spreads after being pronounced clean, the priest must reexamine it; if the itch has spread in the skin, he doesn't have to look any farther, for yellow hair, for instance; he is unclean. But if he sees that the itch is unchanged and black hair has begun to grow in it, the itch is healed. The person is clean and the priest will pronounce him clean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a boil: Exodus 9:9, Exodus 15:26, 2 Kings 20:7, Job 2:7, Psalms 38:3-7, Isaiah 38:21

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:25 - turned white

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to God . He selected clean animals and birds from every species and offered them as burnt offerings on the altar. God smelled the sweet fragrance and thought to himself, "I'll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I'll never again kill off everything living as I've just done.

Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."

Genesis 14:13
A fugitive came and reported to Abram the Hebrew. Abram was living at the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner. They were allies of Abram. When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken prisoner, he lined up his servants, all of them born in his household—there were 318 of them—and chased after the captors all the way to Dan. Abram and his men split into small groups and attacked by night. They chased them as far as Hobah, just north of Damascus. They recovered all the plunder along with nephew Lot and his possessions, including the women and the people.

Genesis 18:1
God appeared to Abraham at the Oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent. It was the hottest part of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing. He ran from his tent to greet them and bowed before them.

Genesis 35:27
Finally, Jacob made it back home to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba, present-day Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived. Isaac was now 180 years old. Isaac breathed his last and died—an old man full of years. He was buried with his family by his sons Esau and Jacob.

Genesis 37:14
He said, "Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing and bring me back a report." He sent him off from the valley of Hebron to Shechem.

Joshua 14:13
Joshua blessed him. He gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite still today, because he gave himself totally to God , the God of Israel.

1 Timothy 2:8
Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray—not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin thereof, was a boil,.... Or hot ulcer, by which, says Maimonides n you may understand any stroke by a stone, stick, or iron, or any other thing: and in the Misnah o, it is asked, what is an ulcer (or boil)? a stroke by wood, stone, pitch, or hot water; all that is from the force of fire is an ulcer:

and is healed; by the use of medicine, and the part, in all appearance, as well and as sound as ever.

n In Misn. Negaim, c. 6. sect. 8. o Ib. c. 9. sect. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 13:18. In the skin thereof, was a boil — Scheuchzer supposes this and the following verse to speak of phlegmonic, erysipelatous, gangrenous, and phagedenic ulcers, all of which were subjected to the examination of the priest, to see whether they were infectious, or whether the leprosy might not take its origin from them. A person with any sore or disposition to contagion was more likely to catch the infection by contact with the diseased person, than he was whose skin was whole and sound, and his habit good.