Leviticus 13:12

But if the skin disease breaks out all over his skin so that it covers all the skin of the infected person from head to foot, as far as the priest can see,

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;

In Context

11it is a chronic skin disease and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not isolate him, for he is unclean.

13the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean.

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Cross References

Job 40:4“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

Isaiah 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

Romans 7:14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 13:2-18

The Law Concerning Leprosy. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: 3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague… Read the whole commentary →

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