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၂ ဓမ္မရာဇဝင် 13

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1 ဒါဝိဒ်၏သား အဗရှလုံ၌ တာမာအမည်ရှိသော အဆင်းလှသော နှမတယောက်ရှိ၏။ ဒါဝိဒ်၏သား အာမနုန်သည် ထိုနှမကို ချစ်လေ၏။

2 ချစ်အားကြီးသောကြောင့် နာ၍နေ၏။ နှမတော်သည် အပျိုကညာဖြစ်၏။ သူ၌အဘယ်သို့ အလို ပြည့်စုံမည်ကို အာမနုန်သည် ကြံ၍မရနိုင်။

3 ဒါဝိဒ်အစ်ကို ရှိမာသား ယောနဒပ်သည် အာမနုန်၏ အဆွေခင်ပွန်းဖြစ်၏။ ထိုယောနဒပ်သည် လိမ္မာသောသူဖြစ်၏။

4 ကိုယ်တော်သည် ရှင်ဘုရင်၏ သားတော်ဖြစ်လျက် အဘယ်ကြောင့် တနေ့ထက်တနေ့ ပိန်ချုံးတော်မူ သနည်း။ ကျွန်တော်ကို မပြောချင်သလောဟု မေးလျှင်၊ အာမနုန်က၊ ငါ့ညီအဗရှလုံ၏ နှမတာမာကို တပ်သော စိတ်ရှိသည်ဟု ပြန်ပြော၏။

5 ယောနဒပ်ကလည်း၊ ခုတင်ပေါ်မှာ တုံးလုံးနေ၍ နာဟန်ဆောင်ပါ။ ခမည်းတော်သည် အကြည့်အရှု ကြွလာတော်မူသောအခါ၊ အကျွန်ုပ်နှမတာမာလာ၍ ကျွေးမွေးပါစေ။ သူချက်သော စားစရာကို အကျွန်ုပ်သည် မြင်၍ သူလက်စားရမည်အကြောင်း၊ အကျွန်ုပ်ရှေ့မှာ ချက်ပါစေဟု အခွင့်တောင်းရမည်ဟု အကြံပေးသည် အတိုင်း၊

6 အာမနုန်သည် တုံးလုံးနေ၍ နာဟန်ပြု၏။ ရှင်ဘုရင်သည် အကြည့်အရှုကြွလာတော်မူသောအခါ၊ အာမနုန်က၊ အကျွန်ုပ်နှမတာမာလာပါစေ။ သူလက်၌ အကျွန်ုပ်သည် စားရမည်အကြောင်း၊ အကျွန်ုပ်ရှေ့မှာ မုန့်ပြားနှစ်ပြားကို လုပ်ပါစေဟု ရှင်ဘုရင်အား အခွင့်တောင်းလေ၏။

7 ဒါဝိဒ်သည်လည်း တာမာအိမ်သို့ လူကို စေလွှတ်၍၊ သင်၏မောင် အာမနုန်အိမ်သို့ သွားပြီးလျှင် စားစရာကို ချက်ပေးပါဟု မှာလိုက်သည်အတိုင်း၊

8 တာမာသည် မောင်အာမနုန်အိမ်သို့ သွား၍ အာမနုန်သည် တုံးလုံးနေ၏။ တာမာသည် မုန့်ညက်ကို ယူ၍ နယ်ပြီးမှ၊ မောင်ရှေ့မှာ မုန့်ပြားတို့ကို လုပ်၍ ဖုတ် လေ၏။

9 ပုကန်ပြားကိုလည်းယူ၍ အာမနုန်ရှေ့မှာ လောင်းထားသော်လည်း သူသည်မစားဘဲ လူအပေါင်း တို့ကို ငါ့ထံမှ ထွက်သွားစေဟုဆိုသဖြင့်၊ လူအပေါင်းတို့သည် ထွက်သွားကြ၏။

10 တာမာအားလည်း၊ သင့်လက်၌ ငါစားရအောင် အခန်းထဲသို့ ယူခဲ့လော့ဟုဆိုသည်အတိုင်း၊ တာမာသည် မိမိလုပ်သော မုန့်ပြားတို့ကို ယူ၍ မောင်အာမနုန်ရှိရာ အခန်းထဲသို့ဝင်လေ၏။

11 ထိုသို့အာမနုန်စားစရာဘို့ ယူခဲ့သောအခါ၊ သူသည် နှမလက်ကို ဆွဲ၍၊ ငါ့နှမ၊ ငါနှင့်အိပ်ပါဟု ဆို၏။

12 တာမာကလည်းမပြုပါနှင့် ငါ့မောင်။ ငါ့ကိုမရှုတ်ချပါနှင့်။ ဣသရေလအမျိုး၌ ဤသို့သောအမှုကို မပြု သင့်၊ ဤအမှုဆိုးကို မပြုပါနှင့်။

13 ပြုလျှင်ငါသည် ရှက်ခြင်းနှင့် အဘယ်သို့ ကင်းလွတ်မည်နည်း။ သင်သည်လည်း ဣသရေလအမျိုး၌ လူမိုက်ကဲ့သို့ဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်။ သို့ဖြစ်၍ ရှင်ဘုရင်ကို လျှောက်ပါလော့။ လျှောက်လျှင်မပေးစားဘဲ နေတော် မမူပါဟု ပြောဆိုသော်လည်း၊

14 အာမနုန်သည် နားမထောင်။ နှမထက်အားကြီးသဖြင့် အနိုင်ပြု၍ အိပ်လေ၏။

15 တဖန်အာမနုန်သည် နှမကိုအလွန်မုန်းပြန်၏။ အရင်ချစ်အား ကြီးသည်က် မုန်းအားသာ၍ကြီးသဖြင့်၊ သင်၍သွားတော့ဟုဆို၏။

16 နှမကလည်း အကြောင်းမရှိပါ။ ငါ၌ပြုဘူးသောအပြစ်ထက် ယခုနှင်ထုတ်သော အပြစ်သာ၍ ကြီးသည် ဟု ဆိုသော်လည်း၊ အာမနုန်သည် နားမထောင်

17 အစေခံကျွန်တယောက်ကို ခေါ်၍ ဤမိန်းမကို နှင်ထုတ်လော့။ သူနောက်မှာ တံခါးကျင်ထိုးလော့ဟု စီရင်၏။

18 အပျိုကညာဖြစ်သော ရှင်ဘုရင်၏ သမီးတော် ဝတ်တတ်သည်အတိုင်း၊ အဆင်းအရောင်ထူးခြားသော အဝတ်ကိုဝတ်လျက်ရှိသော တာမာကို အစေခံကျွန်သည် နှင်ထုတ်၍ သူနောက်မှာ တံခါးကျင်ထိုးလေ၏။

19 တာမာသည်လည်း ခေါင်းပေါ်မှာ ပြာကိုတင်၍ အဆင်းအရောင်ထူးခြားသော အဝတ်ကိုဆုတ်ပြီးမှ၊ ခေါင်းပေါ်၌ လက်တင်၍ ငိုကြွေးလျက် ပြန်သွား၏။

20 မောင်ရင်းအဗရှလုံကလည်း၊ ငါ့အစ်ကိုအာမနုန်သည် သင်နှင့်အတူရှိပြီလော။ သို့သော်လည်း ငါ့နှမ တိတ်ဆိတ်စွာ နေလော့။ သူသည် သင်၏မောင်ဖြစ်၏။ ဤအမှုကိုမမှတ်နှင့်ဟုဆိုသော်၊ တာမာသည် မိမိမောင် အဗရှလုံအိမ်၌ ဆိတ်ညံစွာနေ၏

21 ဒါဝိဒ်မင်းကြီးသည် ထိုအမှုအလုံးစုံကို ကြားသိသောအခါ၊ အလွန်အမျက်ထွက်၏။

22 အဗရှလုံသည် အစ်ကိုအာမနုန်အား ကောင်းသောစကား၊ မကောင်းသောစကားကိုမပြော။ သို့ရာတွင် နှမတာမာကို ရှုတ်ချသောကြောင့် အငြိုးထား၏။

23 ထိုနောက် နှစ်နှစ်စေ့သောအခါ အဗရှလုံသည် ဧဖရိမ်မြို့အနား၊ ဗာလဟာဇော်ရွာမှာ သိုးမွေးညှပ်ပွဲကို ခံ၍ ရှင်ဘုရင်၏သားတော်အပေါင်းတို့ကို ခေါ်ဘိတ်လေ၏။

24 အဗရှလုံသည်လည်း ရှင်ဘုရင်ထံတော်သို့သွား၍၊ ကိုယ်တော်ကျွန်သည် သိုးမွေးညှပ်ပွဲကို ခံပါ၏။ ကျွန်များ တို့ကို ခေါ်၍ကိုယ်တော်ကျွန်နှင့်အတူ ကိုယ်တော်တိုင် ကြွတော်မူပါဟု လျှောက်လျှင်၊

25 ရှင်ဘုရင်ကမသွားသင့်ငါ့သား၊ လူအပေါင်းတို့ကို မသွားစေနှင့်။ စရိတ်များမည်ကို စိုးရိမ်စရာရှိသည်ဟု ဆိုသဖြင့်၊ အဗရှလုံသွေးဆောင်သော်လည်း ကိုယ်တော်တိုင် မလိုက်ဘဲ ကောင်းကြီးပေး၏။

26 အဗရှလုံကလည်း၊ လိုက်တော်မမူလျှင်၊ နောင်တော်အာမနုန် လိုက်ရသောအခွင့်ကို ပေးတော်မူပါဟု လျှောက်ပြန်သော်၊ ရှင်ဘုရင်က အဘယ်ကြောင့် လိုက်စေရမည်နည်းဟု ဆိုသော်လည်း၊

27 အဗရှလုံ ပူဆာသောကြောင့် အာမနုန်မှစ၍ သားတော်ရှိသမျှ လိုက်ရသောအခွင့်ကို ပေးတော်မူ၏။

28 အဗရှလုံကလည်း၊ အာမနုန်သည် စပျစ်ရည်ကို သောက်၍ ရွှင်လန်းသောအခါ စောင့်နေကြ။ အာမနုန် ကို ထိုးခုတ်ကြဟု ငါဆိုသောအခါ၊ သေအောင်လုပ်ကြံကြ။ မစိုးရိမ်ကြနှင့်။ ငါစီရင်သည်မဟုတ်လော။ အားယူ၍ ရဲရင့်ခြင်းရှိကြလော့ဟု မိမိကျွန်တို့အား မှာထားနှင့်သည် အတိုင်း၊

29 သူတို့သည် အာမနုန်ကို ပြုကြ၏။ ိုအခါ ရှင်ဘုရင်၏ သားတော်အပေါင်းတို့သည် လားကို စီးလျက် ပြေးသွားကြ၏။

30 သူတို့မရောက်မှီအခြားသူလာ၍၊ အဗရှလုံသည် အရှင်မင်းကြီး၏သားတော်အပေါင်းတို့ကို သတ်ပါပြီ။ တယောက်မျှမကျန်ကြွင်းပါဟု နားတော်လျှောက်လေ၏။

31 ရှင်ဘုရင်သည်အဝတ်တော်ကို ဆုတ်လျက် မြေပေါ်မှာ တုံးလုံးနေ၏။ ကျွန်တော်အပေါင်းတို့ သည်လည်း၊ မိမိတို့အဝတ်ကို ဆုတ်လျက် အနားတော်၌ နေကြ၏။

32 ဒါဝိဒ်အစ်ကိုရှိမာ၏ သားယောနဒပ်က၊ အရှင်မင်းကြီး၏ သားတော်အပေါင်းတို့ကို သတ်လေပြီဟူသော စကားကို ယုံတော်မမူပါနှင့်။ အာမနုန်တယောက်တည်းသာ သေပါပြီ။ အဗရှလုံနှမတာမာကို အာမနုန်သည် ရှုတ်ချသောနေ့မှစ၍ ဤအမှုကိုသူ၏ မောင်စီရင်ပါပြီ။

33 ယခုမှာ ကျွန်တော်သခင်အရှင်မင်းကြီး၏ သားတော်အပေါင်းတို့သည် သေကြပြီဟုထင်လျက် စိတ် ညှိုးငယ်တော် မမူပါနှင့်။ အာမနုန်တယောက်တည်းသာ သေ၍ အဗရှလုံလည်း ပြေးပါလိမ့်မည်ဟု လျှောက်လေ ၏။

34 ထိုအခါကင်းစောင့်လုလင်သည် မြော်ကြည့်၍၊ မိမိ နောက်၌ တောင်ခြေရင်းလမ်းမှာ လူများလာသည်ကို မြင်၏။

35 ယောနဒပ်ကလည်း၊ အရှင်မင်းကြီး၏သားတော်တို့သည် လာကြပါပြီ။ ကိုယ်တော်ကျွန်ပြောသောစကား မှန်ပါ၏ဟု လျှောက်သည် အဆုံး၌၊

36 ရှင်ဘုရင်၏သားတော်တို့သည် ရောက်လာအသံကိုလွှင့်လျက် ငိုကြွေးကြ၏။ ရှင်ဘုရင်နှင့် ကျွန်တော် အပေါင်းတို့သည် ပြင်းစွာ ငိုကြွေးကြ၏။

37 အဗရှလုံသည် ပြေး၍ ဂေရှုရမင်းကြီးအမိ ဟုဒ်သားတာလမဲထံသို့ သွား၏။ ဒါဝိဒ်သည် မိမိသား ကြောင့် နေ့တိုင်းငိုကြွေးမြည်တမ်းလေ၏။

38 အဗရှလုံသည် ဂေရှုရမြို့သို့ ပြေးပြီးမှ သုံးနှစ် နေ၏။

39 တဖန်ဒါဝိဒ်မင်းကြီးသည် အာမနုန်သေသောကြောင့်၊ ထိုသူကို အောက်မေ့သောစိတ်အား လျော့သဖြင့် အဗရှလုံကိုလွမ်းဆွတ်လျက်နေ၏။

   

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4677. 'And he made him a tunic of various colours' means the resulting appearances of truth by which the spiritual of the natural is recognized and distinguished. This is clear from the meaning of 'a tunic' as the truth of the natural, dealt with below; and from the meaning of 'various colours' as appearances of truth by which the spiritual of the natural is recognized and distinguished. No one can know that these things are meant by 'various colours' unless he knows that colours may be seen in the next life no less than in the world - colours which are far more beautiful and various - and unless he knows the origins of those colours. Colours seen in the next life are produced by the variegation of light there and are so to speak modifications of intelligence and wisdom, for the light which is seen there is a manifestation of Divine Truth received from the Lord, that is, it is the Divine Spiritual from Him, or what amounts to the same, is Divine Intelligence and Wisdom. These two are seen as light before the eyes of angels and spirits. From this one may see what is meant by the colours being products of that light, namely different kinds and so appearances of truth that are due to varying affections for good and truth. Regarding colours in the next life, see 1042, 1043, 1053, 1624, 3993, 4530.

[2] It has been stated already in 3301 that 'a tunic' means the truth of the natural, but as this meaning was not substantiated there from other places in the Word, let these be mentioned here. Because kings in the Jewish Church represented the Lord as regards the Divine Spiritual or Divine Truth, 2015, 2069, 3009, 3670, their daughters therefore wore tunics of various colours, for 'daughters' meant affections for good and truth, and so meant Churches, 2362, 3963. The following is said of them in the second Book of Samuel,

On Tamar, David's daughter, there was a tunic of various colours, for virgin daughters of the king wore such clothes. 2 Samuel 13:18.

[3] And because high priests represented the Lord as regards the Divine

Celestial or Divine Good, Aaron therefore wore vestments which represented Divine Truth that was derived from the Lord's Divine Good; for Divine Good exists within the Lord, whereas Divine Truth proceeds from Him. This was what those vestments represented. Something similar was represented when the Lord was transfigured before Peter, James, and John, in that Divine Good was seen as the sun, and Divine Truth was manifested by means of His garments which had the appearance of light, Matthew 17:2.

[4] Regarding the vestments worn by Aaron and his sons, the following is said in Moses,

You shall make for Aaron a tunic of fine linen, and a turban of fine linen; and you shall make a girdle, the work of an embroiderer. And you shall make tunics for Aaron's sons, and you shall make girdles for them, and you shall make head-coverings for them, for glory and adornment. Exodus 28:39-40.

Each article of clothing here meant something connected with Divine Truth derived from the Lord's Divine Good, 'a tunic of fine linen' meaning specifically the Divine Spiritual. The same applies elsewhere in the same author,

You shall take the vestments, and put the tunic on Aaron, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and you shall clothe him with the girdle of the ephod. Then you shall cause his sons to come near, and you shall put them in tunics. Exodus 29:5, 8; 40:14.

What each article of clothing means here will in the Lord's Divine mercy be stated when those verses come up for consideration. 'Garments' in general are truths, see 297, 1073, 2576, 4545.

[5] Prophets too wore tunics, though theirs were made of hair. This was because prophets represented the Lord as regards truths of doctrine, and since truths belong to the natural or external man, their tunics were made of hair - 'hair' meaning the natural, see 3301.

[6] The fact that 'a tunic' means Divine Truth received from the Lord is evident further still from those places where a tunic is mentioned in the New Testament, as in John,

The soldiers took His garments and made four parts, a part for each soldier, and His tunic. But the tunic was without seam, woven from the top throughout. Therefore they said to one another, Let us not divide it - so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saying They divided My garments for themselves, and for My tunic they cast lots. John 19:23-24.

Anyone reading this description supposes that it does not hold anything deeper within it than the facts that the garments were divided among the soldiers and that lots were cast for the tunic. But each detail described here represented and meant spiritually something Divine - that is to say, those two details about the garments being divided into four and about the tunic not being divided but having lots cast for it, and above all the detail about the tunic being without seam and woven from the top throughout. 'The tunic' meant the Lord's Divine Truth, which being singular - derived from Good - was represented by the tunic's being without seam and woven from the top throughout.

[7] Much the same was meant by Aaron's tunic which, as is evident in Moses, was woven or the work of a weaver,

They made tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver, for Aaron and his sons Exodus 39:27.

Also represented by the tunic without seam was the fact that the Lord did not allow Divine Truth to be torn apart, as was done by the Jews to the lower truths of the Church.

[8] Because Divine Truth is singular - that is to say, it is derived solely from Divine Good - the twelve disciples were commanded, when they were being sent out to preach the gospel of the kingdom, not to have two tunics. This is recorded in Luke as follows,

Jesus sent the twelve disciples to preach the kingdom of God. And He said to them, Take nothing for the way, neither staves, nor bag, nor bread, nor silver, nor have two tunics each. Luke 9:2-3.

In Mark,

He charged them to take nothing for the way except a staff; not a bag, nor bread, nor bronze in the belt, but to wear sandals; and do not put on two tunics. Mark 6:8-9.

And in Matthew,

Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor bronze in your belts, nor bag for the way, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staves. Matthew 10:9-10.

[9] All the individual instructions given in these places are representative of the celestial and spiritual things of the Lord's kingdom which the disciples were sent to preach. The reason they were not to take gold, silver, bronze, bag, or bread with them was that those things meant different kinds of good and truth received from the Lord alone. 'Gold' means good, 113, 1551, 1552, while 'silver' means truth derived from that good, 1551, 2954; 'bronze' means natural good, 425, 1551, and 'bread' the good of love, which is heavenly good, 276, 680, 2165, 2177, 3478, 3735, 4211, 4217. 'Tunic' however and 'sandal' meant the truths with which they were to be endued, and 'staff the power of truth derived from good. For 'staff' means that power, see 4013, 4015; 'sandal' the lowest natural, 1748, here its truth; and 'tunic' interior natural truth. Now because these things had to be not twofold but singular, they were forbidden to have two staves, two pairs of sandals, or two tunics. These are the arcana contained in what the Lord commanded, but no one can possibly know about them except from the internal sense.

[10] All the detailed instructions spoken by the Lord were representative of Divine things, and consequently of the celestial and spiritual things of His kingdom. They were accordingly suited to the mental grasp of men and at the same time to the understanding of spirits and angels. Therefore the things spoken by the Lord pervaded the whole of heaven and continue to do so. From this it is also evident how valuable and important it is to know the internal sense of the Word. Without it anyone can use the Word to support whatever dogma he likes; and because this is seen to be so by those who are subject to evil, they therefore deride the Word and think it is anything but Divine.

  
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Leviticus 13

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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

2 "When a man shall have a rising in his body's skin, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes in the skin of his body the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons, the priests:

3 and the priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body: and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body's skin, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean.

4 If the bright spot is white in the skin of his body, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and its hair hasn't turned white, then the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.

5 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and, behold, if in his eyes the plague is arrested, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.

6 The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

7 But if the scab spreads on the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.

8 The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.

9 "When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;

10 and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the rising,

11 it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.

12 "If the leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the infected person from his head even to his feet, as far as it appears to the priest;

13 then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.

14 But whenever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.

15 The priest shall examine the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is unclean. It is leprosy.

16 Or if the raw flesh turns again, and is changed to white, then he shall come to the priest;

17 and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.

18 "When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,

19 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest;

20 and the priest shall examine it; and behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy. It has broken out in the boil.

21 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it isn't deeper than the skin, but is dim, then the priest shall isolate him seven days.

22 If it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a plague.

23 But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

24 "Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white,

25 then the priest shall examine it; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and its appearance is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

26 But if the priest examines it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn't lower than the skin, but is faded; then the priest shall isolate him seven days.

27 The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.

28 If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar from the burn.

29 "When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

30 then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

31 If the priest examines the plague of itching, and behold, its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall isolate him the person infected with itching seven days.

32 On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn't spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn't deeper than the skin,

33 then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more days.

34 On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn't spread in the skin, and its appearance isn't deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

35 But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,

36 then the priest shall examine him; and behold, if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest shall not look for the yellow hair; he is unclean.

37 But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.

38 "When a man or a woman has bright spots in the skin of the body, even white bright spots;

39 then the priest shall examine them; and behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

40 "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.

41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.

42 But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

43 Then the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,

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

45 "The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, 'Unclean! Unclean!'

46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.

47 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

48 whether it is in warp, or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;

49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.

50 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.

51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.

52 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.

53 "If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;

54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and he shall isolate it seven more days.

55 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.

56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:

57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.

58 The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean."

59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.