Leviticus 13:37
But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus 13:37 in other translations
| BSB | If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean. |
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| WEB | 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. |
| ASV | But if in his eyes the scall be at a stay, and black hair be grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean. |
| YLT | and if in his eyes the scall hath stayed, and black hair hath sprung up in it, the scall hath been healed--he is clean--and the priest hath pronounced him clean. |
| DARBY | But if the scall have in his sight remained as it was, and there is black hair grown up therein, the scall is healed: he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. |
| BBE | But if, in his opinion, the growth is stopped, and black hair has come up on it, the disease has gone; he is clean and the priest will say that he is clean. |
| Webster | But if the scall shall be in his sight at a stay, and there is black hair grown in it; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean. |
What does Leviticus 13:37 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 13:18-44
The priest is told what judgment to make, if there were any appearance of a leprosy in old sores; and such is the danger of those who having escaped the pollutions of the world are again entangled therein. Or, in a burn by accident, ver. #(24). The burning of strife and contention often occasions the rising and breaking out of that corruption, which proves that men are unclean. Human life lies exposed to many…
Leviticus 13:37 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Leviticus 13:36
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 is unclean.
- Leviticus 13:37
But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
- Leviticus 13:38
If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
Leviticus 13:37 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas si le pareciere que la tiña está detenida, y que ha salido en ella el pelo negro, la tiña está sanada; él está limpio, y por limpio lo dará el sacerdote. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et si la teigne est demeurée au même état, à ses yeux, et que du poil noir y ait poussé, la teigne est guérie: il est pur, et le sacrificateur le déclarera pur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und wenn in seinen Augen der Schorf stehen geblieben ist, und es ist schwarzes Haar darin gewachsen, so ist der Schorf geheilt; er ist rein, und der Priester soll ihn für rein erklären. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Porro si steterit macula, et capilli nigri fuerint, noverit hominem sanatum esse, et confidenter eum pronuntiet mundum. |