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Bible Verses About Leprosy

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  1. And if the place be lower than the other flesh, and the hair yellow, and thinner than usual: he shall declare them unclean, because it is the leprosy of the head and the beard;

  2. But if he perceive the place of the spot is equal with the flesh that is near it, and the hair black: he shall shut him up seven days,

  3. And on the seventh day he shall look upon it. If the spot be not grown, and the hair keep its colour, and the place of the blemish be even with the other flesh:

  4. The man shall be shaven all but the place of the spot: and he shall be shut up other seven days.

  5. If on the seventh day the evil seem to have stayed in its place, and not lower than the other flesh, he shall cleanse him: and his clothes being washed he shall be clean.

  6. But if after his cleansing the spot spread again in the skin:

  7. He shall seek no more whether the hair be turned yellow, because he is evidently unclean.

  8. But if the spot be stayed, and the hair be black, let him know that the man is healed: and let him confidently pronounce him clean.

  9. If a whiteness appear in the skin of a man or a woman,

  10. 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.

  11. The man whose hair falleth off from his head, he is bald and clean:

  12. And if the hair fall from his forehead, he is bald before and clean.

  13. But if in the bald head or in the bald forehead there be risen a white or reddish colour:

  14. And the priest perceive this, he shall condemn him undoubtedly of leprosy which is risen in the bald part.

  15. Now whosoever shall be defiled with the leprosy, and is separated by the judgment of the priest:

  16. But if after the stones be taken out, and the dust scraped off, and it be plastered with other earth.

  17. The priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house is unclean.

  18. And they shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust without the town into an unclean place.

  19. And for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

  20. And having immolated one sparrow in an earthen vessel, over living waters,

  21. He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated, and in the living water: and he shall sprinkle the house seven times.

  22. And shall purify it as well with the blood of the sparrow, as with the living water, and with the living sparrow, and with the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet.

  23. And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house: and it shall be rightly cleansed.

  24. Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they beware of those things that are consecrated of the children of Israel: and defile not the name of the things sanctified to me, which they offer. I am the Lord.

  25. Say to them and to their posterity: Every man of your race, that approacheth to those things that are consecrated, and which the children of Israel have offered to the Lord, in whom there is uncleanness, shall perish before the Lord. I am the Lord.