Leviticus 13:29

THE MESSAGE

"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.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

King James Version
If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;

Lexham English Bible
"And when a man or a woman has an infection on the head or in the beard,

New Century Version
"When a man or a woman gets a sore on the scalp or on the chin,

New English Translation
"When a man or a woman has an infection on the head or in the beard,

Amplified Bible
"When a man or woman has a disease on the head or in the beard (face),

New American Standard Bible
"Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard,

Geneva Bible (1587)
If also a man or woman hath a sore on the head or in the beard,

Legacy Standard Bible
"Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard,

Contemporary English Version
If you have a sore on your head or chin,

Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: v) "If a man or woman has a sore on the head or a man in his beard,

Darby Translation
And if a man or a woman have a sore on the head or on the beard,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Someone might get an infection on the scalp or beard.

English Standard Version
"When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard,

George Lamsa Translation
If a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard;

Good News Translation
When any of you, male or female, have a sore on your head or chin,

Christian Standard Bible®
“When a man or woman has a condition on the head or chin,

Literal Translation
And if a man or a woman has in them a plague in the head or in the beard,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan a man or woman is skyruye vpon the heade or beerd, and the prest seyth the mark,

American Standard Version
And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,

Bible in Basic English
And when a man or a woman has a disease on the head, or in the hair of the chin,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If man or woman hath a sore vpon the head or the bearde,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,

King James Version (1611)
If a man or woman hath a plague vpon the head or the beard,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if a man or a woman have in them a plague of leprosy in the head or the beard;

English Revised Version
And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,

Berean Standard Bible
If a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A man ethir womman, in whos heed ether beerd lepre buriounneth, the preest schal se hem;

Young's Literal Translation
`And when a man (or a woman) hath in him a plague in the head or in the beard,

Update Bible Version
And when a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

Webster's Bible Translation
If a man or woman shall have a plague upon the head or the beard;

World English Bible
"When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

New King James Version
"If a man or woman has a sore on the head or the beard,

New Living Translation
"If anyone, either a man or woman, has a sore on the head or chin,

New Life Bible
"When a man or woman has a sore on the head or in the hair of the face,

New Revised Standard
When a man or woman has a disease on the head or in the beard,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when there cometh to be in, any man or woman, a spot, - in the head or in the beard,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the leprosy break out in the head or the beard of a man or woman, the priest shall see them,

Revised Standard Version
"When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard,

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

1 Kings 8:38, 1 Kings 12:28, 2 Chronicles 6:29, Psalms 53:4, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 5:20, Isaiah 9:15, Micah 3:11, Matthew 6:23, Matthew 13:14, Matthew 13:15, John 16:2, John 16:3, Acts 22:3, Acts 22:4, Acts 26:9, Acts 26:10, 2 Corinthians 4:3, 2 Corinthians 4:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 2 Thessalonians 2:12

Reciprocal: Isaiah 3:17 - smite

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If a man or a woman hath a plague upon the head or the beard. Any breaking out in those parts a swelling, scab, or spot, on a man's beard or on a woman's head; or on the head of either man or woman; or on a woman's beard, if she had any, as some have had though not common.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. A plague upon the head or the beard — This refers to a disease in which, according to the Jews, the hair either on the head or the chin dropped out by the roots.