Leviticus 13:12

However, if the skin disease affects all their skin so that it covers their skin from head to toe, everywhere the priest can see,

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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 serious skin disease and the priest must declare them unclean. He doesn't need to place the person in isolation because they are unclean.

13the priest shall inspect them, and if the disease has covered their entire body, he will declare the person clean. As it has all turned white, they are clean.

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Cross References

Job 40:4“Me—I am nothing at all. I have no answers. I put my hand in front of my mouth.

Isaiah 64:6We've all become unclean, and all the good things we do are like dirty rags. We wither and die like autumn leaves, and our sins, like the wind, blow us away.

Romans 7:14We realize that the law is spiritual; but I'm all-too-human, 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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