Leviticus 13:30-32
New English Translation
30 the priest is to examine the infection,[a] and if[b] it appears to be deeper than the skin[c] and the hair in it is reddish yellow and thin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean.[d] It is scall,[e] a disease of the head or the beard.[f] 31 But if the priest examines the scall infection and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,[g] and there is no black hair in it, then the priest is to quarantine the person with the scall infection for seven days.[h] 32 The priest must then examine the infection on the seventh day, and if[i] the scall has not spread, there is no reddish yellow hair in it, and the scall does not appear to be deeper than the skin,[j]
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- Leviticus 13:30 tn Heb “and the priest shall see the infection.”
- Leviticus 13:30 tn Heb “and behold.”
- Leviticus 13:30 tn Heb “its appearance is deep ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, “deeper than”) the skin.”
- Leviticus 13:30 tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tameʾ; cf. the note on v. 3 above).
- Leviticus 13:30 tn The exact identification of this disease is unknown. Cf. KJV “dry scall”; NASB “a scale”; NIV, NCV, NRSV “an itch”; NLT “a contagious skin disease.” For a discussion of “scall” disease in the hair, which is a crusty scabby disease of the skin under the hair that also affects the hair itself, see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 192-93, and J. Milgrom, Leviticus (AB), 1:793-94. The Hebrew word rendered “scall” (נֶתֶק, neteq) is related to a verb meaning “to tear; to tear out; to tear apart.” It may derive from the scratching and/or the tearing out of the hair or the scales of the skin in response to the itching sensation caused by the disease.
- Leviticus 13:30 tn Heb “It is scall. It is the disease of the head or the beard.”
- Leviticus 13:31 tn Heb “and behold there is not its appearance deep ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, meaning “deeper than”) the skin.”
- Leviticus 13:31 tn Heb “and the priest will shut up the infection of the scall seven days.”
- Leviticus 13:32 tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).
- Leviticus 13:32 tn Heb “and the appearance of the scall is not deep ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, meaning “deeper than”) the skin.”
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