Sinai & The Law

`And if the priest see it, and lo, there is no white hair in it, and it is not lower than the skin, and is become weak, then hath the priest shut him up seven days;

and if it spread greatly in the skin, then hath the priest pronounced him unclean, it is a plague;

and if in its place the bright spot stay--it hath not spread--it is an inflammation of the ulcer; and the priest hath pronounced him clean.

`Or when flesh hath in its skin a fiery burning, and the quickening of the burning, the bright white spot, hath been very red or white,

and the priest hath seen it, and lo, the hair hath turned white in the bright spot, and its appearance is deeper than the skin; leprosy it is , in the burning it hath broken out, and the priest hath pronounced him unclean; it is a plague of leprosy.

`And if the priest see it, and lo, there is no white hair on the bright spot, and it is not lower than the skin, and it is become weak, then the priest hath shut him up seven days;

and the priest hath seen him on the seventh day, if it spread greatly in the skin, then the priest hath pronounced him unclean; a plague of leprosy it is .

`And if the bright spot stay in its place, it hath not spread in the skin, and is become weak; a rising of the burning it is , and the priest hath pronounced him clean; for it is inflammation of the burning.

`And when a man (or a woman) hath in him a plague in the head or in the beard,

then hath the priest seen the plague, and lo, its appearance is deeper than the skin, and in it a thin shining hair, and the priest hath pronounced him unclean; it is a scall--it is a leprosy of the head or of the beard.

`And when the priest seeth the plague of the scall, and lo, its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then hath the priest shut up him who hath the plague of the scall seven days.

`And the priest hath seen the plague on the seventh day, and lo, the scall hath not spread, and a shining hair hath not been in it, and the appearance of the scall is not deeper than the skin,

then he hath shaved himself, but the scall he doth not shave; and the priest hath shut up him who hath the scall a second seven days.

And the priest hath seen the scall on the seventh day, and lo, the scall hath not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and the priest hath pronounced him clean, and he hath washed his garments, and hath been clean.

`And if the scall spread greatly in the skin after his cleansing,

and the priest hath seen him, and lo, the scall hath spread in the skin, the priest seeketh not for the shining hair, he is unclean;

and if in his eyes the scall hath stayed, and black hair hath sprung up in it, the scall hath been healed--he is clean--and the priest hath pronounced him clean.

`And when a man or woman hath in the skin of their flesh bright spots, white bright spots,

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.

`And when a man's head is polished, he is bald, he is clean;

and if from the corner of his face his head is polished, he is bald of the forehead; he is clean.

`And when there is in the bald back of the head, or in the bald forehead, a very red white plague, it is a leprosy breaking out in the bald back of the head, or in the bald forehead;

and the priest hath seen him, and lo, the rising of the very red white plague in the bald back of the head, or in the bald forehead, is as the appearance of leprosy, in the skin of the flesh,

he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest doth pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

`As to the leper in whom is the plague, his garments are rent, and his head is uncovered, and he covereth over the upper lip, and `Unclean! unclean!' he calleth;