Leviticus 13:44

He is a leper and unclean; the priest is to say that he is most certainly unclean: the disease is in his head.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

43Then if the priest sees that the growth of the disease has become red and white on his head or on his brow where there is no hair, like the mark in the skin of a leper;

45And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean.

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Cross References

Job 36:14They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

Matthew 6:23But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

2 John 1:8Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:39-47

38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; 39 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. 40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean. 41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean. 42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald… Read the whole commentary →

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