{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/leviticus/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T06:19:54.596Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Leviticus","bookSlug":"leviticus","chapter":13,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":14,"totalChapters":27,"totalVerses":59},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh <i>like</i> the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and <i>when</i> the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight <i>be</i> deeper than the skin of his flesh, it <i>is</i> a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If the bright spot <i>be</i> white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight <i>be</i> not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up <i>him that hath</i> the plague seven days:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, <i>if</i> the plague in his sight be at a stay, <i>and</i> the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, <i>if</i> the plague <i>be</i> somewhat dark, <i>and</i> the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it <i>is but</i> a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And <i>if</i> the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it <i>is</i> a leprosy."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And the priest shall see <i>him</i>: and, behold, <i>if</i> the rising <i>be</i> white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and <i>there be</i> quick raw flesh in the rising;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"It <i>is</i> an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he <i>is</i> unclean."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of <i>him that hath</i> the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, <i>if</i> the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce <i>him</i> clean <i>that hath</i> the plague: it is all turned white: he <i>is</i> clean."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: <i>for</i> the raw flesh <i>is</i> unclean: it <i>is</i> a leprosy."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And the priest shall see him: and, behold, <i>if</i> the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce <i>him</i> clean <i>that hath</i> the plague: he <i>is</i> clean."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"The flesh also, in which, <i>even</i> in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it <i>be</i> in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it <i>is</i> a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"But if the priest look on it, and, behold, <i>there be</i> no white hairs therein, and <i>if</i> it <i>be</i> not lower than the skin, but <i>be</i> somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it <i>is</i> a plague."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"But if the bright spot stay in his place, <i>and</i> spread not, it <i>is</i> a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Or if there be <i>any</i> flesh, in the skin whereof <i>there is</i> a hot burning, and the quick <i>flesh</i> that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, <i>if</i> the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it <i>be in</i> sight deeper than the skin; it <i>is</i> a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it <i>is</i> the plague of leprosy."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"But if the priest look on it, and, behold, <i>there be</i> no white hair in the bright spot, and it <i>be</i> no lower than the <i>other</i> skin, but <i>be</i> somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: <i>and</i> if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it <i>is</i> the plague of leprosy."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And if the bright spot stay in his place, <i>and</i> spread not in the skin, but it <i>be</i> somewhat dark; it <i>is</i> a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it <i>is</i> an inflammation of the burning."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it <i>be</i> in sight deeper than the skin; <i>and there be</i> in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it <i>is</i> a dry scall, <i>even</i> a leprosy upon the head or beard."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it <i>be</i> not in sight deeper than the skin, and <i>that there is</i> no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up <i>him that hath</i> the plague of the scall seven days:"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, <i>if</i> the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall <i>be</i> not in sight deeper than the skin;"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up <i>him that hath</i> the scall seven days more:"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, <i>if</i> the scall be not spread in the skin, nor <i>be</i> in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he <i>is</i> unclean."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and <i>that</i> there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he <i>is</i> clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, <i>even</i> white bright spots;"},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"Then the priest shall look: and, behold, <i>if</i> the bright spots in the skin of their flesh <i>be</i> darkish white; it <i>is</i> a freckled spot <i>that</i> groweth in the skin; he <i>is</i> clean."},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he <i>is</i> bald; <i>yet is</i> he clean."},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he <i>is</i> forehead bald: <i>yet is</i> he clean."},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it <i>is</i> a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead."},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, <i>if</i> the rising of the sore <i>be</i> white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;"},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"He is a leprous man, he <i>is</i> unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague <i>is</i> in his head."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"And the leper in whom the plague <i>is</i>, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean."},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"All the days wherein the plague <i>shall be</i> in him he shall be defiled; he <i>is</i> unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp <i>shall</i> his habitation <i>be</i>."},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, <i>whether it be</i> a woollen garment, or a linen garment;"},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"Whether <i>it be</i> in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;"},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it <i>is</i> a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:"},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up <i>it that hath</i> the plague seven days:"},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, <i>or</i> in any work that is made of skin; the plague <i>is</i> a fretting leprosy; it <i>is</i> unclean."},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it <i>is</i> a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire."},{"verseNumber":53,"text":"And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;"},{"verseNumber":54,"text":"Then the priest shall command that they wash <i>the thing</i> wherein the plague <i>is</i>, and he shall shut it up seven days more:"},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, <i>if</i> the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it <i>is</i> unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it <i>is</i> fret inward, <i>whether</i> it <i>be</i> bare within or without."},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague <i>be</i> somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:"},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it <i>is</i> a spreading <i>plague</i>: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague <i>is</i> with fire."},{"verseNumber":58,"text":"And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin <i>it be</i>, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean."},{"verseNumber":59,"text":"This <i>is</i> the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean."}],"citation":{"inline":"Leviticus 13 (KJV)","markdown":"[Leviticus 13](https://primebible.com/kjv/leviticus/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/leviticus/13 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}