1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 "When a man shall have a swelling 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 The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. 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; so 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. 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. 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 swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, 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 already 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. 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 The priest shall examine him. 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 swelling, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest. 20 The priest shall examine it. Behold, if its appearance is deeper 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 deeper than the skin, but has 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 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. Then the priest shall isolate the one 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, then 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. 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 a reddish-white plague is in the bald head or the bald forehead, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head or his bald forehead. 43 Then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the swelling 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 body, 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. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.
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 leather, or in anything made of leather; 49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of leather; 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 leather, 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 that the plague is in, 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 what the plague is in with fire. 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.
1 Verder het die HERE met Moses en A„ron gespreek en gesê:
2 As 'n mens in die vel van sy vlees 'n swelsel of uitslag of ligte vlek het, en dit in die vel van sy vlees 'n plaag van melaatsheid word, moet hy na die priester A„ron of na een van sy seuns, die priesters, gebring word;
3 en die priester moet na die aangetaste plek in die vel van die vlees kyk. Het die hare op die plek wit geword, en lyk dit of die plek dieper is as die vel van sy vlees, dan is dit die plaag van melaatsheid. As die priester dit sien, moet hy hom onrein verklaar.
4 Maar as dit 'n wit vlek in die vel van sy vlees is en dit nie dieper lyk as die vel nie, en die hare daarvan nie wit geword het nie, moet die priester die aangetaste persoon sewe dae lank opsluit.
5 As die priester hom op die sewende dag bekyk en sien dat die aangetaste plek, volgens hy kan sien, dieselfde gebly het, die plek nie in die vel versprei het nie, dan moet die priester hom nog 'n keer sewe dae lank opsluit.
6 Bekyk die priester hom dan op die sewende dag nog 'n keer en sien hy dat die aangetaste plek dof van kleur geword en die plek in die vel nie versprei het nie, dan moet die priester hom rein verklaar. Dit is 'n uitslag; en hy moet sy klere was, dan is hy rein.
7 Maar as die uitslag werklik in die vel versprei nadat hy hom aan die priester vertoon het om rein te word, moet hy hom nog 'n keer aan die priester vertoon.
8 En sien die priester dat die uitslag in die vel versprei het, dan moet die priester hom onrein verklaar. Dit is melaatsheid.
9 As die plaag van melaatsheid aan 'n mens is, moet hy na die priester gebring word.
10 En as die priester sien dat daar 'n wit swelsel in die vel is wat die hare wit gemaak het, terwyl daar wilde vlees in die swelsel groei,
11 dan is dit 'n verouderde melaatsheid in die vel van sy vlees, en die priester moet hom onrein verklaar. Hy moet hom nie opsluit nie, want hy is onrein.
12 Maar as die melaatsheid so geweldig in die vel uitbreek, dat die melaatsheid die hele vel van die aangetaste persoon van sy hoof tot sy voete oordek, so ver as wat die oë van die priester kan sien;
13 en sien die priester dat die melaatsheid sy hele vlees oordek het, dan moet hy die aangetaste persoon rein verklaar: hy het heeltemal wit geword, hy is rein.
14 Maar so gou as wilde vlees aan hom gesien word, sal hy onrein wees;
15 en as die priester die wilde vlees sien, moet hy hom onrein verklaar. Die wilde vlees is onrein, dit is melaatsheid.
16 Maar as die wilde vlees weer weggaan en hy wit word, moet hy na die priester kom.
17 As die priester hom dan bekyk en sien dat die aangetaste plek wit geword het, dan moet die priester die aangetaste persoon rein verklaar; hy is rein.
18 Maar as daar in die vlees aan hom, naamlik in die vel, 'n sweer is en gesond word,
19 maar in die plek van die sweer 'n wit swelsel of 'n rooierige wit vlek kom, moet hy hom aan die priester vertoon.
20 As die priester sien dat dit dieper lyk as die vel, en die hare daarvan wit geword het, dan moet die priester hom onrein verklaar; dit is 'n plaag van melaatsheid, dit het in die sweer uitgebreek.
21 Maar as die priester dit bekyk, en daar geen wit hare op is nie, en dit nie dieper as die vel is nie en dof van kleur geword het, dan moet die priester hom sewe dae lank opsluit.
22 En as dit werklik in die vel versprei, moet die priester hom onrein verklaar; dit is 'n plaag van melaatsheid.
23 Maar as die ligte vlek bly waar dit is, nie versprei het nie, is dit die litteken van die sweer, en die priester moet hom rein verklaar.
24 Of as in die vlees, in sy vel 'n brandplek van vuur is en die nuwe vlees van die brandplek 'n rooierige wit of wit vlek is;
25 en die priester dit bekyk en sien dat die hare op die ligte vlek wit geword het en dit dieper lyk as die vel, dan is dit melaatsheid; in die brandplek het dit uitgebreek. Daarom moet die priester hom onrein verklaar; dit is die plaag van melaatsheid.
26 Maar as die priester dit bekyk en sien dat op die ligte vlek geen wit hare is nie, en dit nie dieper as die vel is nie en dof van kleur geword het, dan moet die priester hom sewe dae lank opsluit.
27 Dan moet die priester op die sewende dag hom bekyk. As dit werklik in die vel versprei het, moet die priester hom onrein verklaar; dit is die plaag van melaatsheid.
28 Maar as die ligte vlek bly waar dit is, nie in die vel versprei het nie en dof van kleur geword het, dan is dit die swelsel van die brandplek. Daarom moet die priester hom rein verklaar, want dit is die litteken van die brandplek.
29 Verder, as daar by 'n man of vrou 'n aangetaste plek aan die hoof of in die baard is,
30 en die priester die plek bekyk en sien dat dit dieper lyk as die vel, en daar geel dun hare op is, dan moet die priester hom onrein verklaar; dit is skurfte, dit is melaatsheid van die hoof of van die baard.
31 Maar as die priester die plaag van skurfte bekyk en sien dat dit nie dieper as die vel lyk nie, en daar geen swart hare op is nie, dan moet die priester die deur skurfte aangetaste persoon sewe dae lank opsluit.
32 Bekyk die priester dan op die sewende dag die aangetaste plek en sien hy dat die skurfte nie versprei het nie, en daar geen geel hare op is nie, en die skurfte nie dieper lyk as die vel nie,
33 dan moet die persoon hom skeer, maar die skurwe plek moet hy nie skeer nie, en die priester moet die skurwe persoon nog 'n keer sewe dae lank opsluit.
34 Bekyk die priester dan die skurfte op die sewende dag en sien hy dat die skurfte nie in die vel versprei het nie en dit nie dieper as die vel lyk nie, dan moet die priester hom rein verklaar. En hy moet sy klere was en sal rein wees.
35 Maar as die skurfte werklik in die vel versprei nadat hy rein verklaar is,
36 en die priester dit bekyk en sien dat die skurfte in die vel versprei het, dan hoef die priester nie na die geel hare te soek nie; hy is onrein.
37 Maar as die skurfte, volgens hy kan sien, dieselfde gebly en swart hare daarop gegroei het, dan is die skurfte gesond. Hy is rein, en die priester moet hom rein verklaar.
38 Verder, as 'n man of vrou in die vel van hulle vlees ligte vlekke, wit vlekke het,
39 en die priester sien dat daar dowwe wit vlekke in die vel van hulle vlees is, dan is dit gewone uitslag wat in die vel uitgebreek het; hy is rein.
40 En as 'n man se hoof kaal word, is hy 'n kaalkop; hy is rein.
41 En as sy hoof aan die voorkant kaal word, het hy 'n bles; hy is rein.
42 Maar as daar in die kaalte of in die bles 'n rooierige wit plek is, dan is dit melaatsheid wat uitbreek in die kaalte of in die bles.
43 As die priester dit bekyk en sien dat die swelsel van die aangetaste plek in die kaalte of in die bles rooierig wit is, wat lyk soos die melaatsheid van die vel van die vlees,
44 dan is hy 'n melaatse, hy is onrein; die priester moet hom sekerlik onrein verklaar; op sy hoof het hy die plaag.
45 Verder moet in die klere van die melaatse op wie die plaag is, skeure wees, en sy hare moet los hang; ook moet hy sy baard bedek en roep: Onrein, onrein!
46 Al die tyd dat die plaag op hom is, sal hy onrein wees. Onrein is hy; alleen moet hy woon; buitekant die laer moet sy woning wees.
47 Verder, as daar in 'n kledingstuk die plaag van melaatsheid is, in 'n kledingstuk van wol of linne;
48 of in die skeerdraad of die inslag van linne of wol, of in 'n vel of enige leerwerk;
49 en die aangetaste plek in die kledingstuk of in die vel of in die skeerdraad of die inslag of in enige leervoorwerp liggroen of rooierig is, dan is dit 'n plaag van melaatsheid, en hulle moet die priester dit laat sien.
50 Die priester moet dan die aangetaste plek bekyk en die aangetaste voorwerp sewe dae lank opsluit.
51 Dan moet hy op die sewende dag die plek bekyk; as die plaag versprei het in die kledingstuk of in die skeerdraad of die inslag of in die vel, vir watter diens die vel ook al verwerk is, dan is die plaag 'n kwaadaardige melaatsheid; so iets is onrein.
52 Daarom moet hy die kledingstuk of die skeerdraad of die inslag van wol of van linne of enige leervoorwerp waarin die aangetaste plek is, verbrand; want dit is 'n kwaadaardige melaatsheid. Dit moet met vuur verbrand word.
53 Maar as die priester sien dat die plek in die kledingstuk of in die skeerdraad of die inslag of in enige leervoorwerp nie versprei het nie,
54 dan moet die priester beveel dat hulle die voorwerp was waar die plek aan is; en hy moet dit nog 'n keer sewe dae lank opsluit.
55 As die priester dan die aangetaste voorwerp bekyk, nadat dit gewas is, en sien dat die plek nog net so lyk, hoewel die plek nie versprei het nie, dan is dit onrein; jy moet dit met vuur verbrand. Dit is 'n invreting aan die agter of aan die voorkant.
56 Maar as die priester sien dat die plek, nadat dit gewas is, dof van kleur geword het, dan moet hy dit uit die kledingstuk of uit die vel of uit die skeerdraad of die inslag uitskeur.
57 Maar as dit nog in die kledingstuk of in die skeerdraad of die inslag of in enige leervoorwerp gesien word, dan is dit 'n melaatsheid wat weer uitbreek; jy moet die aangetaste voorwerp met vuur verbrand.
58 Maar die kledingstuk of die skeerdraad of die inslag of enige leervoorwerp wat jy was as die plek daaruit verdwyn het, moet dit nog 'n keer gewas word, en dit sal rein wees.
59 Dit is die wet oor die plaag van melaatsheid in 'n kledingstuk van wol of linne of in die skeerdraad of die inslag of in enige leervoorwerp, om dit rein of onrein te verklaar.