Common English Bible

Leviticus 13:44-54 Common English Bible (CEB)

44. the person is afflicted with skin disease; they are unclean. The priest must declare them unclean on account of the head infection.

45. Anyone with an infection of skin disease must wear torn clothes, dishevel their hair, cover their upper lip, and shout out, "Unclean! Unclean!"

46. They will be unclean as long as they are infected. They are unclean. They must live alone outside the camp.

47. Whenever there is an infection of skin disease on clothing—on wool or linen clothing,

48. in the weaving of the linen or wool, or on a skin or skin item—

49. and the infection is greenish or reddish on the clothing, the weaving, or the skin or skin item, it is an infection of skin disease. It must be shown to the priest.

50. The priest will examine the infection and quarantine the infected item seven days.

51. On the seventh day he will examine the infection again. If the infection has spread in the clothing, the weaving, or the skin, whatever it is used for, the infection is a case of infectious skin disease; the item is unclean.

52. The priest will burn the clothing, the weaving of the wool or linen, or whatever skin item in which the infection was found, because it is an infectious skin disease; it must be burned with fire.

53. But if the priest sees that the infection has not spread in the clothing, the weaving, or on any skin item,

54. the priest will order that the infected piece be washed, and he will quarantine it for another seven days.