Leviticus 13:42

But if in the bald head or bald forehead there has arisen a white or reddish color,

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In The King James Version

And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

In Context

41And if the hair falls off of his forehead, he is bald in front and clean.

43and the priest will have seen this, he shall condemn him without doubt of leprosy, which has arisen in the baldness.

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Cross References

Leviticus 14:37And when he will have seen in its walls something like little hollows, deformed with paleness or redness, and lower than the remaining surface,

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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