Leviticus 13:44 “the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him uncl…”

Leviticus 13:44

the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.

World English Bible

he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.

American Standard Version

he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his head.

Geneva Bible 1599

He is a leper and vncleane: therefore the Priest shall pronounce him altogether vncleane: for the sore is in his head.

Darby Translation

he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his sore is in his head.

Young's Literal Translation

he [is] a leprous man, he [is] unclean; the priest doth pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his head.

Bible in Basic English

He is a leper and unclean; the priest is to say that he is most certainly unclean: the disease is in his head.

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Cross references

“utterly unclean”

Job 36:14 Matthew 6:23 2 John 1:8–10 2 Peter 2:1 2 Peter 2:2

Job 36:14 · BSB

They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.

Matthew 6:23 · BSB

But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

2 John 1:8–10 · BSB

Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.

2 Peter 2:1 · BSB

Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction o…

2 Peter 2:2 · BSB

Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.

“his plague”

Isaiah 1:5

Isaiah 1:5 · BSB

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

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

In context

43The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white like a skin disease,

45A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’

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