Leviticus 13:27-45

²⁷and in the seventh day he shall behold him; if the leprosy waxeth in the flesh, the priest shall defoul the man;

²⁸else if the whiteness standeth in his place, and is not clear enough, it is a wound, or soreness, of burning, and therefore the man shall be cleansed, for it is a sign of burning.

²⁹A man or a woman, in whose head or beard leprosy burgeoneth,

³⁰the priest shall see them; and if the place is lower than the tother flesh, and the hair is white, and is subtler, either smaller, than it is wont, the priest shall defoul them, for it is leprosy of the head, and of the beard.

³¹Else if he seeth the place of the wem, or the sore, even with the nigh flesh, and the hair black, the priest shall enclose them seven days,

³²and he shall see them in the seventh day; if the wem waxeth not, and the hair is of his colour, and the place of wound is even with the tother flesh,

³³the man shall be shaven, without the place of the wem, and he shall be enclosed again by seven other days.

³⁴If in the seventh day the wound, or soreness, is seen to have stand in his place, neither is lower than the tother flesh, the priest shall cleanse the man; and when his clothes be washed, he shall be clean.

³⁵Else if after the cleansing, a spot waxeth again in the skin,

³⁶the priest shall no more inquire, whether the hair is changed into white colour, for apertly he is unclean.

³⁷Soothly if the spot standeth still, and the hairs be black, know then the priest that the man is healed, and trustily pronounce he the man clean.

³⁸A man or a woman, in whose skin whiteness appeareth,

³⁹the priest shall behold them; if he perceiveth, that whiteness some-deal dark shineth in the skin, know he, that it is no leprosy, but a spot of white colour, and that the man is clean.

⁴⁰A man of whose head the hairs float away, he is bald, and clean;

⁴¹and if the hairs fall from the forehead, he is bald, and is clean;

⁴²else if in the baldness before, either in the baldness behind, white either red colour is bred, or is sprung up,

⁴³and the priest seeth this, he shall condemn the man, without doubt of leprosy, which is bred in the baldness.

⁴⁴Therefore whoever is defouled with leprosy, and is separated from other men, at the doom of the priest,

⁴⁵he shall have his clothes unsewed, and his head bare, and his mouth covered with a cloth, and he shall cry himself defouled, and vile;