Leviticus 13:9

THE MESSAGE

"Whenever someone has a serious and infectious skin disease, you must bring him to the priest. The priest will examine him; if there is a white swelling in the skin, the hair is turning white, and there is an open sore in the swelling, it is a chronic skin disease. The priest will pronounce him unclean. But he doesn't need to quarantine him because he's already given his diagnosis of unclean. If a serious disease breaks out that covers all the skin from head to foot, wherever the priest looks, the priest will make a thorough examination; if the disease covers his entire body, he will pronounce the person with the sore clean—since it has turned all white, he is clean. But if they are open, running sores, he is unclean. The priest will examine the open sores and pronounce him unclean. The open sores are unclean; they are evidence of a serious skin disease. But if the open sores dry up and turn white, he is to come back to the priest who will reexamine him; if the sores have turned white, the priest will pronounce the person with the sores clean. He is clean.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the Kohen;

King James Version
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;

Lexham English Bible
"When an infectious skin disease is on a person and he is brought to the priest,

New Century Version
"If a person has a harmful skin disease, he must be brought to the priest,

New English Translation
"When someone has a diseased infection, he must be brought to the priest.

Amplified Bible
"When a leprous infection is on a person, he shall be brought to the priest.

New American Standard Bible
"When the infection of leprosy is on someone, then he shall be brought to the priest.

Geneva Bible (1587)
When the plague of leprosie is in a man, he shalbe brought vnto the Priest,

Legacy Standard Bible
"When the infection of leprosy is on a man, then he shall be brought to the priest.

Contemporary English Version
Any of you with a skin disease must be brought to a priest.

Complete Jewish Bible
"If a person has tzara‘at, he is to be brought to the cohen.

Darby Translation
When a sore [as] of leprosy is in a man, he shall be brought unto the priest;

Easy-to-Read Version
"Whoever has leprosy must be brought to the priest.

English Standard Version
"When a man is afflicted with a leprous disease, he shall be brought to the priest,

George Lamsa Translation
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;

Good News Translation
If any of you have a dreaded skin disease, you shall be brought to the priest,

Christian Standard Bible®
“When a case of serious skin disease may have developed on a person, he is to be brought to the priest.

Literal Translation
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought in to the priest.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan a plage of leprosy is vpo a man, he shalbe brought vnto the prest.

American Standard Version
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;

Bible in Basic English
When the disease of a leper is seen on a man, let him be taken to the priest;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When the plague of the leprosie is in a man, he shalbe brought vnto the priest.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest.

King James Version (1611)
When the plague of leprosie is in a man, then he shall be brought vnto the Priest;

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if a man have a plague of leprosy, then he shall come to the priest;

English Revised Version
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;

Berean Standard Bible
When anyone develops a skin disease, he must be brought to the priest.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and whanne whijt colour is in the fleisch, and chaungith the siyt of heeris, and thilke fleisch apperith quyk,

Young's Literal Translation
`When a plague of leprosy is in a man, then he hath been brought in unto the priest,

Update Bible Version
When the plague of leprosy is in man, then he shall be brought to the priest;

Webster's Bible Translation
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest:

World English Bible
"When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;

New King James Version
"When the leprous sore is on a person, then he shall be brought to the priest.

New Living Translation
"Anyone who develops a serious skin disease must go to the priest for an examination.

New Life Bible
"When a man has a bad skin disease, he will be brought to the religious leader.

New Revised Standard
When a person contracts a leprous disease, he shall be brought to the priest.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When, the plague of leprosy, cometh to be in any human being, then shall he be brought in unto the priest;

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the stroke of the leprosy be in a man, he shall be brought to the priest:

Revised Standard Version
"When a man is afflicted with leprosy, he shall be brought to the priest;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When the infection of leprosy is on a man, then he shall be brought to the priest.

Contextual Overview

¹ God spoke to Moses and Aaron: "When someone has a swelling or a blister or a shiny spot on the skin that might signal a serious skin disease on the body, bring him to Aaron the priest or to one of his priest sons. The priest will examine the sore on the skin. If the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears more than skin deep, it is a serious skin disease and infectious. After the priest has examined it, he will pronounce the person unclean. ⁴"If the shiny spot on the skin is white but appears to be only on the surface and the hair has not turned white, the priest will quarantine the person for seven days. On the seventh day the priest will examine it again; if, in his judgment, the sore is the same and has not spread, the priest will keep him in quarantine for another seven days. On the seventh day the priest will examine him a second time; if the sore has faded and hasn't spread, the priest will declare him clean—it is a harmless rash. The person can go home and wash his clothes; he is clean. But if the sore spreads after he has shown himself to the priest and been declared clean, he must come back again to the priest who will conduct another examination. If the sore has spread, the priest will pronounce him unclean—it is a serious skin disease and infectious. ⁹"Whenever someone has a serious and infectious skin disease, you must bring him to the priest. The priest will examine him; if there is a white swelling in the skin, the hair is turning white, and there is an open sore in the swelling, it is a chronic skin disease. The priest will pronounce him unclean. But he doesn't need to quarantine him because he's already given his diagnosis of unclean. If a serious disease breaks out that covers all the skin from head to foot, wherever the priest looks, the priest will make a thorough examination; if the disease covers his entire body, he will pronounce the person with the sore clean—since it has turned all white, he is clean. But if they are open, running sores, he is unclean. The priest will examine the open sores and pronounce him unclean. The open sores are unclean; they are evidence of a serious skin disease. But if the open sores dry up and turn white, he is to come back to the priest who will reexamine him; if the sores have turned white, the priest will pronounce the person with the sores clean. He is clean.

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Cross-References

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 13:12
So Abram left Egypt and went back to the Negev, he and his wife and everything he owned, and Lot still with him. By now Abram was very rich, loaded with cattle and silver and gold. He moved on from the Negev, camping along the way, to Bethel, the place he had first set up his tent between Bethel and Ai and built his first altar. Abram prayed there to God . Lot, who was traveling with Abram, was also rich in sheep and cattle and tents. But the land couldn't support both of them; they had too many possessions. They couldn't both live there—quarrels broke out between Abram's shepherds and Lot's shepherds. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living on the land at the time. 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." Lot looked. He saw the whole plain of the Jordan spread out, well watered (this was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah), like God 's garden, like Egypt, and stretching all the way to Zoar. Lot took the whole plain of the Jordan. Lot set out to the east. That's how they came to part company, uncle and nephew. Abram settled in Canaan; Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent near Sodom.

Genesis 13:13
The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God .

Genesis 13:18
Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .

1 Corinthians 6:7
These court cases are an ugly blot on your community. Wouldn't it be far better to just take it, to let yourselves be wronged and forget it? All you're doing is providing fuel for more wrong, more injustice, bringing more hurt to the people of your own spiritual family.

Hebrews 12:14
Work at getting along with each other and with God. Otherwise you'll never get so much as a glimpse of God. Make sure no one gets left out of God's generosity. Keep a sharp eye out for weeds of bitter discontent. A thistle or two gone to seed can ruin a whole garden in no time. Watch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God's lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. You well know how Esau later regretted that impulsive act and wanted God's blessing—but by then it was too late, tears or no tears.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When the plague of leprosy is in a man,.... He has all the signs of it, and it is pretty manifest both to himself and others that it is upon him;

then he shall be brought unto the priest; by his friends and neighbours, if he is not willing to come of himself: a sinner insensible of the leprosy of sin, and of his unclean and miserable state through it, has no will to come to Christ the great High Priest for cleansing; but one that is sensible of it, and of Christ's ability to help and cleanse him, will come freely and gladly, and importunately seek to him for it; though indeed such an one is brought by powerful and efficacious grace to him, yet not against, but with his full will; see John 5:40; compare with this Matthew 8:1.