Serious Skin Diseases

​Serious Skin Diseases

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 

“If anyone has a swelling or a rash or discolored skin that might develop into a serious skin disease… that person must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons. 

The priest will examine the affected area of the skin. 

If the hair, in the affected area, has turned white and the problem appears to be more than skin-deep, it is a serious skin disease, and the priest, who examines it must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. 

“But if the affected area, of the ski, is only a white discoloration and does not appear to be more than skin-deep, and if the hair on the spot has not turned white, the priest will quarantine the person for seven days. 

On the seventh day, the priest will make another examination. 

If he finds the affected area has not changed and the problem has not spread on the skin, the priest will quarantine the person for seven more days. On the seventh day, the priest will make another examination. 

If he finds the affected area has faded and has not spread, the priest will pronounce the person ceremonially clean. 

It was only a rash. 

The person’s clothing must be washed, and the person will be ceremonially clean. 

But, if the rash continues to spread, after the person has been examined, by the priest, and has been pronounced clean, the infected person must return, to be examined again. 

If the priest finds that the rash has spread, he must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean, for it is indeed a skin disease. 

“Anyone who develops a serious skin disease must go to the priest for an examination. If the priest finds a white swelling on the skin, and some hair, on the spot, has turned white, and there is an open sore, in the affected area, it is a chronic skin disease, and the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. 

In such cases, the person need not be quarantined, for it is obvious that the skin is defiled, by the disease. 

Leviticus 13:1–11 (NLT)


Praise be to God!


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