Leviticus 13:44

If it is, then he has an infectious disease and he is unclean. The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his disease on his head.

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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 the priest must examine him to see if the swelling of the diseased area on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white, like the appearance of an infectious disease in the skin.

45The person who has an infectious disease must wear torn clothes, his hair must hang loosely, and he must cover his face up to his nose and call out, 'Unclean, unclean.'

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Cross References

Job 36:14They die in their youth; 1 their lives end among the cultic prostitutes. 1

Matthew 6:23But if your eye is bad, your whole body is full of darkness. Therefore, if the light that is in you is actually darkness, how great is that darkness!

2 John 1:8Look to yourselves, that you do not lose the things for which we all have worked, but so that you may receive a 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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