Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Leviticus 13:31-47 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

31. But if he perceive the place of the spot is equal with the flesh that is near it, and the hair black: he shall shut him up seven days,

32. And on the seventh day he shall look upon it. If the spot be not grown, and the hair keep its colour, and the place of the blemish be even with the other flesh:

33. The man shall be shaven all but the place of the spot, and he shall be shut up other seven days:

34. If on the seventh day the evil seem to have stayed in its place, and not lower than the other flesh, he shall cleanse him, and his clothes being washed he shall be clean.

35. But if after his cleansing the spot spread again in the skin,

36. He shall seek no more whether the hair be turned yellow, because he is evidently unclean.

37. But if the spot be stayed, and the hair be black, let him know that the man is healed, and let him confidently pronounce him clean.

38. If a whiteness appear in the skin of a man or a woman,

39. The priest shall view them. If he find that a darkish whiteness shineth in the skin, let him know that it is not the leprosy, but a white blemish, and that the man is clean.

40. The man whose hair falleth off from his head, he is bald and clean:

41. And if the hair fall from his forehead, he is bald before and clean.

42. But if in the bald head or in the bald forehead there be risen a white or reddish colour,

43. And the priest perceive this, he shall condemn him undoubtedly of leprosy which is risen in the bald part.

44. Now whosoever shall be defiled with the leprosy, and is separated by the judgment of the priest,

45. Shall have his clothes hanging loose, his head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth, and he shall cry out that he is defiled and unclean.

46. All the time that he is a leper and unclean, he shall dwell alone without the camp.

47. A woollen or linen garment that shall have the leprosy