Leviticus 13:39
New International Version
the priest is to examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; they are clean.

New Living Translation
the priest must examine the affected area. If he finds that the shiny patches are only pale white, this is a harmless skin rash, and the person is ceremonially clean.

English Standard Version
the priest shall look, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is leukoderma that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

Berean Standard Bible
the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.

King James Bible
Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.

New King James Version
then the priest shall look; and indeed if the bright spots on the skin of the body are dull white, it is a white spot that grows on the skin. He is clean.

New American Standard Bible
then the priest shall look, and if the bright spots on the skin of their bodies are a faint white, it is eczema that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.

NASB 1995
then the priest shall look, and if the bright spots on the skin of their bodies are a faint white, it is eczema that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.

NASB 1977
then the priest shall look, and if the bright spots on the skin of their bodies are a faint white, it is eczema that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.

Legacy Standard Bible
then the priest shall look, and if the bright spots on the skin of their bodies are a faded white, it is eczema that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.

Amplified Bible
then the priest shall look, and if the bright spots on the skin of their bodies is a dull white, it is [only] a rash that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.

Christian Standard Bible
the priest is to make an examination. If the spots on the skin of the body are dull white, it is only a rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
the priest is to make an examination. If the spots on the skin of the body are dull white, it is only a rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.”

American Standard Version
then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be of a dull white, it is a tetter, it hath broken out in the skin; he is clean.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The Priest shall see if, in the skin in their flesh, a shiny spot of white or blood red scab has grown in the skin, he is clean.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
then the priest shall look; and, behold, there being bright spots of a bright whiteness in the skin of their flesh, it is a tetter; it burst forth in the skin of his flesh; he is clean.

Contemporary English Version
but the priest discovers that it is only a rash, he will say, "You are clean."

Douay-Rheims Bible
The priest shall view them. If he find that a darkish whiteness shineth in the skin, let him know that it is not the leprosy, but a white blemish, and that the man is clean.

English Revised Version
then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be of a dull white; it is a tetter, it hath broken out in the skin; he is clean.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
the priest will make an examination. If the irritated areas on the skin are pale white, a rash has developed on the skin. The person is clean.

Good News Translation
the priest shall examine you. If the spots are dull white, it is only a blemish that has broken out on the skin; you are ritually clean.

International Standard Version
when the priest examines it and finds that there is a light or dull white patch of skin on the body, it's a harmless skin eruption that has spread on the skin. The person is clean."

JPS Tanakh 1917
then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be of a dull white, it is a tetter, it hath broken out in the skin: he is clean.

Literal Standard Version
and the priest has seen, and behold, white [and] faded bright spots [are] in the skin of their flesh—it [is] a freckled spot broken out in the skin; he [is] clean.

Majority Standard Bible
the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.

New American Bible
if the priest, upon examination, finds that the blotches on the skin are pale white, it is only tetter that has broken out on the skin, and the person therefore is clean.

NET Bible
the priest is to examine them, and if the bright spots on the skin of their body are faded white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin. The person is clean.

New Revised Standard Version
the priest shall make an examination, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is a rash that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.

New Heart English Bible
then the priest shall examine them; and look, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the priest shall look: and behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh are darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.

World English Bible
then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean.

Young's Literal Translation
and the priest hath seen, and lo, in the skin of their flesh white weak bright spots, it is a freckled spot broken out in the skin; he is clean.

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Context
Laws about Skin Diseases
38When a man or a woman has white spots on the skin, 39the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean. 40Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.…

Cross References
Leviticus 13:38
When a man or a woman has white spots on the skin,

Leviticus 13:40
Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.


Treasury of Scripture

Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that grows in the skin; he is clean.

if the bright

Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Romans 7:22-25
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: …

James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

Leviticus 13:13
Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.

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Leviticus 13
1. The laws whereby the priest is to be guided in discerning the leprosy.














(39) Then the priest shall look.--If the priest, upon examination, finds that these elevated spots are of a dull or palish white colour, then he is to pronounce the patient clean, that is, free of leprosy, since it is simply a white eruption or tetter, which lasts for a few months, causes no inconvenience, and by degrees disappears of itself. Hence it is called bahack, or "white scurf," and not leprosy. This nameless disorder, which still prevails in the East, is to this day called by the Biblical name bahack.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
the priest
הַכֹּהֵ֗ן (hak·kō·hên)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3548: Priest

shall examine them,
וְרָאָ֣ה (wə·rā·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

and if
וְהִנֵּ֧ה (wə·hin·nêh)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

the spots
בֶּהָרֹ֖ת (be·hā·rōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 934: A whitish spot on the skin

are dull
כֵּה֣וֹת (kê·hō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 3544: Dim, dull, faint

white,
לְבָנֹ֑ת (lə·ḇā·nōṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 3836: White

it
ה֛וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is a harmless rash
בֹּ֥הַק (bō·haq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 933: White scurf

that has broken out
פָּרַ֥ח (pā·raḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6524: To break forth as a, bud, bloom, to spread, to fly, to flourish

on the skin;
בָּע֖וֹר (bā·‘ō·wr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5785: Skin, hide, leather

the person
הֽוּא׃ (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is clean.
טָה֥וֹר (ṭā·hō·wr)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2889: Clean, pure


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