1 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2 "When someone has on the skin of his body a raised spot, a rash, or a shiny spot, and it becomes a case of leprosy on the skin of his body, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons, the priests.
3 The priest shall look at the diseased area on the skin of the body. If the hair in the diseased area has turned white and the disease looks deeper than the skin of his body, it is a case of leprosy; when the priest has looked at him, he shall declare him unclean.
4 But if the shiny spot on the skin of his body is white and does not look deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the diseased person for seven days.
5 On the seventh day the priest shall look at him, and if in his view the disease has stayed as it was and has not spread in the skin, the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.
6 The priest shall look at him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has grown dim and the disease has not spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; it is a rash. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.
7 But if the rash does spread in the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest a second time.
8 The priest shall look, and if the rash has spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is leprosy.
9 "When a case of leprosy is on a person, he shall be brought to the priest.
10 The priest shall look, and if there is a white raised spot on the skin, which has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the raised spot,
11 it is an old leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall declare him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.
12 If the leprosy breaks out widely in the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the diseased person from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see,
13 the priest shall look, and if the leprosy has covered his whole body, he shall declare the diseased person clean. It has all turned white; he is clean.
14 But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean.
15 The priest shall look at the raw flesh and declare him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean; it is leprosy.
16 Or if the raw flesh changes again and turns white, he shall come to the priest.
17 The priest shall look at him, and if the diseased area has turned white, the priest shall declare the diseased person clean; he is clean.
18 "When the body has a boil in its skin, and it has healed,
19 and in the place of the boil a white raised spot or a reddish-white shiny spot appears, it shall be shown to the priest.
20 The priest shall look, and if it looks lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a case of leprosy that has broken out in the boil.
21 But if the priest looks at it and there is no white hair in it, and it is not lower than the skin but has grown dim, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
22 If it spreads in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a disease.
23 But if the shiny spot stays where it is and has not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall declare him clean.
24 "Or when the body has a burn by fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a shiny spot, reddish-white or white,
25 the priest shall look at it. If the hair in the shiny spot has turned white and it looks deeper than the skin, it is leprosy that has broken out in the burn; the priest shall declare him unclean, for it is a case of leprosy.
26 But if the priest looks at it and there is no white hair in the shiny spot, and it is not lower than the skin but has grown dim, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
27 On the seventh day the priest shall look at him; if it has spread in the skin, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a case of leprosy.
28 But if the shiny spot stays where it is and has not spread in the skin but has grown dim, it is the raised spot of the burn, and the priest shall declare him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.
29 "When a man or a woman has a disease on the head or in the beard,
30 the priest shall look at the disease. If it looks deeper than the skin and there is thin yellow hair in it, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is an itch, a leprosy of the head or the beard.
31 But if the priest looks at the itching disease and it does not look deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the person with the itching disease for seven days.
32 On the seventh day the priest shall look at the disease, and if the itch has not spread, no yellow hair is in it, and the itch does not look deeper than the skin,
33 the person shall shave himself, except that he shall not shave the itch, and the priest shall isolate the one with the itch for seven more days.
34 On the seventh day the priest shall look at the itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and does not look deeper than the skin, the priest shall declare him clean; he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
35 But if the itch does spread in the skin after his cleansing,
36 the priest shall look at him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest need not look for yellow hair; he is unclean.
37 If, though, in his view the itch has stayed as it was and black hair has sprouted in it, the itch has healed; he is clean, and the priest shall declare him clean.
38 "When a man or a woman has shiny spots on the skin of the body, white shiny spots,
39 the priest shall look, and if the shiny spots on the skin of their body are dull white, it is a harmless blemish that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
40 "If a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald, but he is clean.
41 If he loses the hair on the front of his head, he is bald on the forehead, but he is clean.
42 But if on the bald head or the bald forehead there is a reddish-white diseased area, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead.
43 The priest shall look at him, and if the raised diseased spot on his bald head or bald forehead is reddish-white, looking like leprosy in the skin of the body,
44 he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest must surely declare him unclean; his disease is on his head.
45 "As for the leprous person who has the disease, his clothes shall be torn and the hair of his head hang loose; he shall cover his upper lip and call out, 'Unclean, unclean!'
46 All the days the disease is on him he shall be unclean; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.
47 "When a case of leprosy is in a garment, whether a wool garment or a linen garment,
48 whether in the warp or the weft of linen or of wool, or in leather or anything made of leather,
49 and the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment or the leather, in the warp or the weft, or in any article of leather, it is a case of leprosy and must be shown to the priest.
50 The priest shall look at the disease and isolate the affected article for seven days.
51 On the seventh day he shall look at the disease. If the disease has spread in the garment, in the warp or the weft, or in the leather, whatever the leather is used for, the disease is a destructive leprosy; it is unclean.
52 He shall burn the garment, or the warp or the weft, whether wool or linen, or any article of leather in which the disease is, for it is a destructive leprosy; it must be burned in the fire.
53 "But if the priest looks and the disease has not spread in the garment, in the warp or the weft, or in any article of leather,
54 the priest shall order that the article with the disease be washed, and he shall isolate it for seven more days.
55 After the diseased article has been washed, the priest shall look, and if the disease has not changed its appearance, even though the disease has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a corrosion, whether the bare spot is on the back or on the front.
56 But if the priest looks and the diseased area has grown dim after it was washed, he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the leather, or out of the warp or the weft.
57 If it appears again in the garment, in the warp or the weft, or in any article of leather, it is breaking out; you shall burn with fire whatever has the disease in it.
58 But the garment, the warp or the weft, or any article of leather that you wash and from which the disease leaves, shall be washed a second time, and it will be clean."
59 This is the law for a case of leprosy in a garment of wool or of linen, in the warp or the weft, or in any article of leather, for declaring it clean or unclean.