Leviticus 13 — English EASY 2024

1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

2‘A person may have a mark on his skin like a sore or a boil. It might become a bad disease that he could give to other people. If he has a mark like that, you must bring him to Aaron or one of his sons, the priests.

3The priest must look at the mark on the person's skin. The hair on the mark may have become white, and the mark may go deep under the skin. If that is so, the person has a bad disease in his skin. If the priest sees that, he must say that the person is unclean.

4But the mark may be a bright place on the person's skin. It may not go deep under the skin. The hair on the mark may not be white. If those things are true, the priest must keep the person separate from other people for seven days.

5On the seventh day, the priest must look carefully at the person's skin again. The mark may not have changed. It may not have grown bigger across the skin. If that is true, the priest must keep the person separate from other people for seven more days.

6On the seventh day, the priest must again look carefully at the person's skin. The mark may not show as clearly as before and it may not have grown any bigger. If that is true, the priest will say that the person is now clean from the disease. The mark on his skin is not dangerous. The person must wash his clothes and then he will be clean.

7But after the person has shown his mark to the priest, it might grow bigger across his skin. If that happens, the person must go and show his skin to the priest a second time.

8The priest must look carefully at the mark. If it has become bigger, the priest must say that the person is unclean. It is a bad disease of the skin.

9If a person has a bad disease in his skin, you must bring him to the priest.

10The priest must look carefully at the mark on the person's skin. The mark may be white and it may grow up above the skin. The hair on it may have become white. It may be a sore that has pus in it.

11If those things are true, it is a disease that continues for a long time. The priest must say that the person is unclean. The priest does not need to keep him separate from other people. They already know that he is unclean.

12It is different if the disease has grown completely across all the person's skin. The priest may see that it covers the whole body, from the person's head to his feet.

13The priest must carefully look at the person's skin. If the skin has become white across the person's whole body, the priest must say that the person is clean.

14But if there is a sore with pus anywhere on the person's skin, the person is unclean.

15The priest must look carefully at the sore and say that the person is unclean. He still has a disease in his skin.

16If the sore changes and it becomes white, the person must go to the priest.

17The priest must look carefully at the skin. If the skin has become white, the priest will say that the person is now clean again. The disease has finished.

18A person might have a boil on his skin. Then it might get better.

19There may be a white mark that grows up above the skin where the boil had been. Or there may be a bright mark on the skin that seems to be red. If this happens, the person must go to the priest.

20The priest will look carefully at the mark on the person's skin. The mark may seem to grow deep under the skin and the hair on it may be white. If this is true, the priest must say that the person is unclean. The person has a bad disease in the place where the boil had been.

21But the priest may see that the mark does not have white hair. It may not go deep under the skin and it may not show very clearly. If that is true, the priest must keep the person separate from other people for seven days.

22If the mark continues to grow across the skin, the priest must say that the person is unclean. He has a bad disease.

23But the mark may not grow bigger across the person's skin. This shows that it is a mark from the boil and it is not a bad disease. The priest must say that the person is clean.

24A person may have burnt his skin. Because of that, there might be a mark on his skin that seems to be red or bright white.

25The priest must look carefully at the mark. The hair on the bright mark may have become white. The mark may seem to grow deep under the skin. This shows that the place where the person burnt himself has become a bad disease in his skin. The priest must say that the person is unclean. He might give the disease to other people.

26But the priest may see that the mark does not have white hair. It may not go deep under the skin and it may not show very clearly. If that is true, the priest must keep the person separate from other people for seven days.

27On the seventh day, the priest must look carefully at the mark. If the mark is growing bigger across the skin, the priest must say that the person is unclean. He has a bad disease.

28But the mark may not have grown across the person's skin. It may not show so clearly. This shows that it is a mark from the place where the person burnt his skin. The priest must say that the person is clean.

29A man or a woman may have a sore on their head or on their chin.

30The priest must look carefully at the sore. The sore may seem to go deep under the skin. It may have hair in it that is thin and yellow. If this is true, the priest must say that the person is unclean. This kind of sore is a bad disease on the person's head or on their chin.

31But the sore may not go deep below the skin. There may be no hair in it that is black. If the priest sees that, he must keep the person separate from other people for seven days.

32On the seventh day, the priest must look carefully at the sore. The sore may not have grown bigger. There may be no hair in it that is yellow. It may not go deep under the skin.

33If that is true, the person must cut the hair off their head. But they must not cut the hair off where the sore is. Then the priest must keep the person separate from other people for seven more days.

34On the seventh day, the priest must look carefully at the sore again. The sore may not have grown bigger and it may not go deep under the person's skin. Then the priest must say that the person is clean. The person must wash their clothes and then they will be clean.

35But after that, the sore may grow bigger again across the person's skin.

36If that happens, the priest must look carefully at the sore. If it has become bigger, the person is unclean. The priest does not need to look for yellow hair.

37But the sore may not have changed. Black hair may have started to grow in it. If that is true, the disease has left the person. The priest must say that the person is clean.

38A man or a woman may have white marks on their skin.

39The priest must look carefully at the marks. If the colour of the marks is not bright, it is not a dangerous disease in the skin. The person is clean.

40The hair may disappear from a man's head until he is bald. That man is clean.

41If the hair disappears from the front of the man's head until that part is bald, the man is clean.

42But if there is a red sore on the bald place at the top or at the back of the man's head, it is a bad disease.

43The priest must look carefully at the sore. The sore in the bald place may grow up above the skin and it may seem to be red. If it looks like a skin disease that appears in other places of a person's body,

44the man has a bad disease. He is unclean. The priest must say that the man is unclean because of the sore on his head.

45Any person who has a bad disease in his skin must tear his clothes. He must not make his hair look nice. He must cover the lower part of his face. He must shout, “I am unclean.”

46All the time that he has the bad skin disease he will continue to be unclean. He must live in a separate place from other people, outside the camp.

47Mould may grow on clothes that are made of wool or linen.

48It may grow on any piece of linen or wool, or on anything made of leather.

49If the mould on any of these things seems to be green or red, it is a bad mould. The person who has the piece of cloth must show it to the priest.

50The priest must look carefully at the mould. He must keep the thing that has the mould on it separate from other things for seven days.

51On the seventh day, the priest must look at the mould again. If the place that has the mould is growing bigger, it is a dangerous mould. Whatever the thing is made of, cloth or leather, it is unclean.

52The priest must burn the piece of cloth or the piece of leather which has the mould. Because it has a dangerous mould, the priest must use fire to destroy it.

53When the priest looks at the piece of cloth or leather on the seventh day, the mould might not have grown bigger.

54If that is true, he must tell the person to wash the thing that has the mould. Then he must keep it separate from other things for seven more days.

55The priest must again look carefully at the piece of cloth after the person has washed it. If the mould still looks the same, the piece of cloth is unclean. Even if the mould has not grown bigger, the cloth is unclean. You must use fire to destroy the piece of cloth or leather. You must do this whether the mould is on the inside or the outside of it.

56When the priest looks at the piece of cloth after the person has washed it, the mould may not show so clearly. If that happens, the priest must tear the part that has mould on it out of the piece of cloth or leather.

57After that, if the mould appears again in the piece of cloth or the piece of leather, it is a dangerous mould that may destroy other things. You must use fire to destroy the thing that has the mould on it.

58But if the mould disappears after you have washed it the first time, it is no longer dangerous. You must wash the piece of cloth or leather a second time. Then it will be clean.’

59These are the rules for mould that grows on cloth that is made of wool or linen. They are also the rules for mould that grows on leather things. They tell the priest how to decide if the things are clean or unclean.