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Leviticus 13:34-47 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

34. On the seventh day, if the mark seems to have stayed in its place, and it is not lower than the rest of the flesh, he shall declare him clean, and, his clothes having been washed, he shall be clean.

35. But if, after his cleansing, the spot will have increased again in the skin,

36. he shall no longer inquire as to whether the hair has turned yellow, because he is plainly unclean.

37. Furthermore, if the spot has not increased, and the hair is black, let him know that the man is healed: and let him confidently pronounce him clean.

38. If a whiteness will have appeared in the skin of a man or a woman,

39. the priest shall examine them. If he detects an obscured whiteness shining in the skin, may he know that it is not leprosy, but a white-colored blemish, and that the man is clean.

40. The man whose hair falls off of his head is bald and clean.

41. And if the hair falls off of his forehead, he is bald in front and clean.

42. But if in the bald head or bald forehead there has arisen a white or reddish color,

43. and the priest will have seen this, he shall condemn him without doubt of leprosy, which has arisen in the baldness.

44. Therefore, whoever will have been spotted by leprosy, and who has been separated at the judgment of the priest,

45. shall have his clothes unstitched, his head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth, and he himself shall cry out that he is contaminated and filthy.

46. The entire time that he is a leper and unclean he shall live alone outside the camp.

47. A woolen or linen garment that will have held the leprosy,