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New King James Version

Leviticus 13:18

"If the body develops a boil in the skin, and it is healed,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Boil;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Boils;   Diseases;   Health-Disease;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Leprosy;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hair;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Leprosy;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Leper;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Body;   Diseases;   Leviticus;   Sore;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Boil;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Leper;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Boil (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Boil;   Leprosy;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,
King James Version
The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
Lexham English Bible
"And when someone's body has a skin sore on his skin and it is healed
New Century Version
"Someone may have a boil on his skin that is healed.
New English Translation
"When someone's body has a boil on its skin and it heals,
Amplified Bible
"And when there is on the skin of the body [the scar of] a boil that is healed,
New American Standard Bible
"Now when the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,
Geneva Bible (1587)
The flesh also in whose skin there is a bile and is healed,
Legacy Standard Bible
"When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,
Contemporary English Version
If you have a sore that either swells or turns reddish-white after it has healed, then you must show it to a priest.
Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: iii) "If a person has on his skin a boil that heals
Darby Translation
And the flesh—when in the skin thereof cometh a boil, and it is healed,
Easy-to-Read Version
"Someone might get a boil on their skin that heals over.
English Standard Version
"If there is in the skin of one's body a boil and it heals,
George Lamsa Translation
The flesh also, if there is in the skin thereof a boil and it is healed,
Good News Translation
If any of you have a boil that has healed
Christian Standard Bible®
“When a boil appears on the skin of someone’s body and it heals,
Literal Translation
And when the flesh has a boil in its skin, and it has been healed,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan there is a byle in the ßkynne of eny mans flesh, and healeth agayne,
American Standard Version
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
Bible in Basic English
And if a bad place has come out on the skin and is well again,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The fleshe also in whose skinne there is a byle, and is healed,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
King James Version (1611)
The flesh also, in which, euen in the skinne thereof was a bile, and is healed,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if the flesh should have become an ulcer in his skin, and should be healed,
English Revised Version
And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
Berean Standard Bible
When a boil appears on someone's skin and it heals,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Fleisch and skyn, in which a botche is bred,
Young's Literal Translation
`And when flesh hath in it, in its skin, an ulcer, and it hath been healed,
Update Bible Version
And when the flesh has a boil on it, and it is healed,
Webster's Bible Translation
The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin of it, was a boil, and is healed,
World English Bible
"When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,
New Living Translation
"If anyone has a boil on the skin that has started to heal,
New Life Bible
"When there is a sore on the skin of the body that has been healed,
New Revised Standard
When there is on the skin of one's body a boil that has healed,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, any one's flesh, hath, in the skin thereof, a boil, - and then it is healed;
Douay-Rheims Bible
When also there has been an ulcer in the flesh and the skin, and it has been healed:
Revised Standard Version
"And when there is in the skin of one's body a boil that has healed,
THE MESSAGE
"When a person has a boil and it heals and in place of the boil there is white swelling or a reddish-white shiny spot, the person must present himself to the priest for an examination. If it looks like it has penetrated the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is a serious skin disease that has broken out in the boil. But if the examination shows that there is no white hair in it and it is only skin deep and has faded, the priest will put him in quarantine for seven days. If it then spreads over the skin, the priest will diagnose him as unclean. It is infectious. But if the shiny spot has not changed and hasn't spread, it's only a scar from the boil. The priest will pronounce him clean.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,

Contextual Overview

18 "If the body develops a boil in the skin, and it is healed, 19 and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest; 20 and if, when the priest sees it, it indeed appears deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore which has broken out of the boil. 21 But if the priest examines it, and indeed there are no white hairs in it, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days; 22 and if it should at all spread over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore. 23 But if the bright spot stays in one place, and has not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. 24 "Or if the body receives a burn on its skin by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white or white, 25 then the priest shall examine it; and indeed if the hair of the bright spot has turned white, and it appears deeper than the skin, it is leprosy broken out in the burn. Therefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore. 26 But if the priest examines it, and indeed there are no white hairs in the bright spot, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall isolate him seven days. 27 And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has at all spread over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprous sore.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a boil: Exodus 9:9, Exodus 15:26, 2 Kings 20:7, Job 2:7, Psalms 38:3-7, Isaiah 38:21

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:25 - turned white

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 13:4
to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 13:7
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.
Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.
Genesis 14:13
Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre [fn] the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they were allies with Abram.
Genesis 18:1
Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, [fn] as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 23:2
So Sarah died in Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Genesis 35:27
Then Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kirjath Arba [fn] (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had dwelt.
Genesis 37:14
Then he said to him, "Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me." So he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.
Numbers 13:22
And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin thereof, was a boil,.... Or hot ulcer, by which, says Maimonides n you may understand any stroke by a stone, stick, or iron, or any other thing: and in the Misnah o, it is asked, what is an ulcer (or boil)? a stroke by wood, stone, pitch, or hot water; all that is from the force of fire is an ulcer:

and is healed; by the use of medicine, and the part, in all appearance, as well and as sound as ever.

n In Misn. Negaim, c. 6. sect. 8. o Ib. c. 9. sect. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 13:18. In the skin thereof, was a boilScheuchzer supposes this and the following verse to speak of phlegmonic, erysipelatous, gangrenous, and phagedenic ulcers, all of which were subjected to the examination of the priest, to see whether they were infectious, or whether the leprosy might not take its origin from them. A person with any sore or disposition to contagion was more likely to catch the infection by contact with the diseased person, than he was whose skin was whole and sound, and his habit good.


 
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