Leviticus 13:46

New King James Version

He shall be unclean. All the days he has the sore he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.

King James Version
All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

Lexham English Bible
For all the days during which the infection is on him, he shall be unclean; he must live alone; his dwelling must be outside the camp."

New Century Version
That person will be unclean the whole time he has the disease; he is unclean. He must live alone outside the camp.

New English Translation
The whole time he has the infection he will be continually unclean. He must live in isolation, and his place of residence must be outside the camp.

Amplified Bible
"He shall remain [ceremonially] unclean as long as the disease is on him; he is unclean. He shall live alone; he shall live outside the camp.

New American Standard Bible
"He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean. He shall live alone; he shall live outside the camp.

Geneva Bible (1587)
As long as the disease shall be vpon him, he shalbe polluted, for he is vncleane: he shall dwell alone, without the campe shall his habitation be.

Legacy Standard Bible
He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his place of habitation shall be outside the camp.

Contemporary English Version
As long as you have the disease, you are unclean and must live alone outside the camp.

Complete Jewish Bible
As long as he has sores, he will be unclean; since he is unclean, he must live in isolation; he must live outside the camp.

Darby Translation
All the days that the sore shall be in him he shall be unclean: he is unclean; he shall dwell apart; outside the camp shall his dwelling be.

Easy-to-Read Version
They are unclean the whole time that they have the infection. They are unclean and must live outside the camp.

English Standard Version
He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.

George Lamsa Translation
All the days wherein the plague is on him he shall be defiled; for he is unclean; he shall dwell alone; outside the camp shall his habitation be.

Good News Translation
You remain unclean as long as you have the disease, and you must live outside the camp, away from others.

Christian Standard Bible®
He will remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

Literal Translation
And the days that the plague shall be in him, he is unclean; he shall live alone, he is unclean; his dwelling shall be at the outside of the camp.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And as longe as the sore is vpon him, he shal be vncleane, dwell alone, and haue his dwellinge without the hoost.

American Standard Version
All the days wherein the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his dwelling be.

Bible in Basic English
While the disease is on him, he will be unclean. He is unclean: let him keep by himself, living outside the tent-circle.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And as long as the disease lasteth vpon hym, he shalbe defiled and vncleane: he shall dwell alone, euen without the campe shall his habitation be.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the days wherein the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his dwelling be.

King James Version (1611)
All the dayes wherein the plague shall bee in him, he shall bee defiled, hee is vncleane: he shall dwell alone, without the campe shall his habitation be.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the days in which the plague shall be upon him, being unclean, he shall be esteemed unclean; he shall dwell apart, his place of sojourn shall be without the camp.

English Revised Version
All the days wherein the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his dwelling be.

Berean Standard Bible
As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in al tyme in which he is lepre and vnclene, he schal dwelle aloone without the castels.

Young's Literal Translation
all the days that the plague [is] in him he is unclean; he [is] unclean, alone he doth dwell, at the outside of the camp [is] his dwelling.

Update Bible Version
All the days wherein the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; outside the camp shall be his dwelling.

Webster's Bible Translation
All the days in which the plague [shall be] in him he shall be defiled; he [is] unclean: he shall dwell alone, without the camp [shall] his habitation [be].

World English Bible
All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. Outside of the camp shall be his dwelling.

New Living Translation
As long as the serious disease lasts, they will be ceremonially unclean. They must live in isolation in their place outside the camp.

New Life Bible
He will be unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He will live alone. His home will be away from the tents.

New Revised Standard
He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All the days that the plague is in him, shall he continue unclean, Unclean, he is, - Alone, shall he remain, Outside the camp, shall be his dwelling.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the time that he is a leper and unclean he shall dwell alone without the camp.

Revised Standard Version
He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone in a habitation outside the camp.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

Contextual Overview

³⁸ "If a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of the body, specifically white bright spots, ³⁹ then the priest shall look; and indeed if the bright spots on the skin of the body are dull white, it is a white spot that grows on the skin. He is clean. ⁴⁰ "As for the man whose hair has fallen from his head, he is bald, but he is clean. ⁴¹ He whose hair has fallen from his forehead, he is bald on the forehead, but he is clean. ⁴² And if there is on the bald head or bald forehead a reddish-white sore, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead. ⁴³ Then the priest shall examine it; and indeed if the swelling of the sore is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy on the skin of the body, ⁴⁴ he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his sore is on his head. ⁴⁵ "Now the leper on whom the sore is, his clothes shall be torn and his head bare; and he shall cover his mustache, and cry, "Unclean! Unclean!' ⁴⁶ He shall be unclean. All the days he has the sore he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the days: Proverbs 30:12

without: Numbers 5:2, Numbers 12:14, Numbers 12:15, 2 Kings 7:3, 2 Kings 15:5, 2 Chronicles 26:21, Lamentations 1:1, Lamentations 1:8, 1 Corinthians 5:5, 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:14, 1 Timothy 6:5, Hebrews 12:15, Hebrews 12:16, Revelation 21:27, Revelation 22:15

Reciprocal: Leviticus 4:12 - without the camp Leviticus 14:3 - out of Leviticus 24:14 - without Numbers 19:3 - without the camp Luke 17:12 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the days wherein the plague [shall be] in him he shall be defiled,.... Reckoned an unclean person, and avoided as such:

he [is] unclean; in a ceremonial sense, and pronounced as such by the priest, and was to be looked upon as such by others during the time of his exclusion and separation, until he was shown to the priest and cleansed, and his offering offered;

he shall dwell alone; in a separate house or apartment, as Uzziah did,

2 Chronicles 26:21; none were allowed to come near him, nor he to come near to any; yea, according to Jarchi, other unclean persons might not dwell with him:

without the camp [shall] his habitation [be]; without the three camps, as the same Jewish writer interprets it, the camp of God, the camp of the Levites, and the camp of Israel: so Miriam, when she was stricken with leprosy, was shut out of the camp seven days, Numbers 12:14. This was observed while in the wilderness, but when the Israelites came to inhabit towns and cities, then lepers were excluded from thence; for they defiled, in a ceremonial sense, every person and thing in a house they came into, whether touched by them or not. So Bartenora b observes, that if a leprous person goes into any house, all that is in the house is defiled, even what he does not touch; and that if he sits under a tree, and a clean person passes by, the clean person is defiled; and if he comes into a synagogue, they make a separate place for him ten hands high, and four cubits broad, and the leper goes in first, and comes out last. The Persians, according to Herodotus c, had a custom much like this; he says, that if any of the citizens had a leprosy or a morphew, he might not come into the city, nor be mixed with other Persians (or have any conversation with them), for they say he has them because he has sinned against the sun: and there was with us an ancient writ, called "leproso amovendo" d, that lay to remove a leper who thrust himself into the company of his neighbours in any parish, either in the church, or at other public meetings, to their annoyance. This law concerning lepers shows that impure and profane sinners are not to be admitted into the church of God; and that such who are in it, who appear to be so, are to be excluded from it, communion is not to be had with them; and that such, unless they are cleansed by the grace of God, and the blood of Christ, shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven; for into that shall nothing enter that defiles, or makes an abomination, or a lie; see 1 Corinthians 5:7

Revelation 21:27.

b In Misn. Celim, c. 1. sect. 4. so in Misn. Negaim, c. 13. sect. 7, 11, 12. c Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 138. d See the Supplement to Chambers's Dictionary, in the word "Leprosy".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dwell alone - More properly, dwell apart; that is, separated from the people.

Though thus excluded from general contact with society, it is not likely that lepers ceased to be objects of sympathy and kindness, such as they now are in those Christian and Moslem countries in which the leprosy prevails. That they associated together in the holy land, as they do at present, is evident from 2 Kings 7:3; Luke 17:12. It has been conjectured that a habitation was provided for them outside Jerusalem, on the hill Gareb (Bezetha), which is mentioned only in Jeremiah 31:39.

Without the camp - Compare the margin reference. A leper polluted everything in the house which he entered. A separate space used to be provided for lepers in the synagogues.