Leviticus 13:40 “Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.”

Leviticus 13:40

Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

World English Bible

“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.

American Standard Version

And if a man’s hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the man whose heare is fallen off his head, and is balde, is cleane.

Darby Translation

And if a man's hair have fallen off his head, he is bald: he is clean;

Young's Literal Translation

'And when a man's head [is] polished, he [is] bald, he [is] clean;

Bible in Basic English

And if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean.

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Cross references

“hair is fallen off his head”

Galatians 4:13 Leviticus 13:41 Song of Solomon 5:11 Romans 6:12 Romans 6:19 Romans 8:10

Galatians 4:13 · BSB

You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

Leviticus 13:41 · BSB

Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.

Song of Solomon 5:11 · BSB

His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

Romans 6:12 · BSB

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

Romans 6:19 · BSB

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness lead…

Romans 8:10 · BSB

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Also

2 Kings 2:23 Isaiah 15:2 Amos 8:10

2 Kings 2:23 · BSB

From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

Isaiah 15:2 · BSB

Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

Amos 8:10 · BSB

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

39the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.

41Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.

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