Leviticus 13:11
It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
Leviticus 13:11 in other translations
| BSB | it is a chronic skin disease and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not isolate him, for he is unclean. |
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| WEB | 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. |
| ASV | it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: he shall not shut him up; for he is unclean. |
| YLT | an old leprosy it is in the skin of his flesh, and the priest hath pronounced him unclean; he doth not shut him up, for he is unclean. |
| DARBY | it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and he shall not shut him up, for he is unclean. |
| BBE | It is an old disease in the skin of his flesh, and the priest will say that he is unclean; he will not have to be shut up, for he is clearly unclean. |
| Webster | It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up; for he is unclean. |
What does Leviticus 13:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 13:9-37
9-37. if the rising be white--This BRIGHT WHITE leprosy is the most malignant and inveterate of all the varieties the disease exhibits, and it was marked by the following distinctive signs: A glossy white and spreading scale, upon an elevated base, the elevation depressed in the middle, but without a change of color; the black hair on the patches participating in the whiteness, and the scaly patches themselves…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 13:1-17
The plague of leprosy was an uncleanness, rather than a disease. Christ is said to cleanse lepers, not to cure them. Common as the leprosy was among the Hebrews, during and after their residence in Egypt, we have no reason to believe that it was known among them before. Their distressed state and employment in that land must have rendered them liable to disease. But it was a plague often inflicted immediately by the…
Leviticus 13:11 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Leviticus 13:10
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
- Leviticus 13:11
It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
- Leviticus 13:12
And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
Leviticus 13:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Lepra es envejecida en la piel de su carne; y le dará por inmundo el sacerdote, y no le encerrará, porque es inmundo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | – c’est une lèpre invétérée dans la peau de sa chair; alors le sacrificateur le déclarera impur; il ne le fera pas enfermer, car il est impur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | so ist es ein alter Aussatz in der Haut seines Fleisches, und der Priester soll ihn für unrein erklären; er soll ihn nicht einschließen, denn er ist unrein. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | lepra vetustissima judicabitur, atque inolita cuti. Contaminabit itaque eum sacerdos, et non recludet, quia perspicuæ immunditiæ est. |