1. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
2. “Someone might have on his skin a swelling or a rash or a bright spot. If the sore looks like a harmful skin disease, the person must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of Aaron’s sons, the priests.
3. The priest must look at the sore on the person’s skin. If the hair in the sore has become white, and the sore seems deeper than the person’s skin, it is a harmful skin disease. When he has finished looking at the person, the priest must announce that the person is unclean.
4. “If there is a white spot on a person’s skin, but the spot does not seem deeper than the skin, and if the hair from the spot has not turned white, the priest must separate that person from other people for seven days.
5. On the seventh day the priest must look at the person again. If he sees that the sore has not changed and it has not spread on the skin, the priest must keep the person separated for seven more days.
6. On the seventh day the priest must look at the person again. If the sore has faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest must announce that the person is clean. The sore is only a rash. The person must wash his clothes, and he will become clean again.
7. “But if the rash spreads again after the priest has announced him clean, the person must come again to the priest.
8. The priest must look at him, and if the rash has spread on the skin, the priest must announce that the person is unclean; it is a harmful skin disease.
9. “If a person has a harmful skin disease, he must be brought to the priest,
10. and the priest must look at him. If there is a white swelling in the skin, and the hair has become white, and the skin looks raw in the swelling,
11. it is a harmful skin disease. It is one he has had for a long time. The priest must announce that the person is unclean. He will not need to separate that person from other people, because everyone already knows that the person is unclean.
12. “If the skin disease spreads all over a person’s body, covering his skin from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see, the priest must look at the person’s whole body.
13. If the priest sees that the disease covers the whole body and has turned all of the person’s skin white, he must announce that the person is clean.
14. “But when the person has an open sore, he is unclean.
15. When the priest sees the open sore, he must announce that the person is unclean. The open sore is not clean; it is a harmful skin disease.
16. If the open sore becomes white again, the person must come to the priest.