Leviticus 13:47

New King James Version

"Also, if a garment has a leprous plague Leviticus 13:47-59">[fn] in it, whether it is a woolen garment or a linen garment,

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

King James Version
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

Lexham English Bible
"And when the garment has an infectious skin disease on it, on a wool garment or on a linen garment,

New Century Version
"Clothing might have mildew on it. It might be clothing made of linen or wool

New English Translation
"When a garment has a diseased infection in it, whether a wool or linen garment,

Amplified Bible
"When a garment has a mark of leprosy in it, whether it is a wool garment or a linen garment,

New American Standard Bible
"When a garment has a mark of leprosy in it, whether it is a wool garment or a linen garment,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also the garment that the plague of leprosie is in, whether it be a wollen garment or a linen garment,

Legacy Standard Bible
"When a garment has a mark of leprosy in it, whether it is a wool garment or a linen garment,

Contemporary English Version
If a greenish or reddish spot appears anywhere on any of your clothing or on anything made of leather, you must let the priest examine the clothing or the leather. He will put it aside for seven days,

Complete Jewish Bible
"When tzara‘at infects an article of clothing, whether it be a woolen or a linen garment,

Darby Translation
And if a sore of leprosy is in a garment, in a woollen garment, or a linen garment,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Some clothing might have mildew on it. The cloth could be linen or wool, woven or knitted. Or the mildew might be on a piece of leather or on something made from leather.

English Standard Version
"When there is a case of leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment,

George Lamsa Translation
If a garment has leprous disease in it, whether it be a woolen garment or a linen garment,

Good News Translation
When there is mildew on clothing, whether wool or linen,

Christian Standard Bible®
“If a fabric is contaminated with mildew—in wool or linen fabric,

Literal Translation
And if there is in any garment a plague of leprosy, in a garment of wool, or in a garment of linen,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan the plage of leprosy is in a cloth, whether it be wollen or lynnen,

American Standard Version
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

Bible in Basic English
And any clothing of wool or of linen in which is the mark of the disease;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The garment also that the plague of leprosie is in, whether it be a woollen garment or a lynnen garment,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the plague of leprosy is in a garment, whether it be a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

King James Version (1611)
The garment also, that the plague of leprosie is in, whether it bee a woollen garment, or a linnen garment,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if a garment have in it the plague of leprosy, a garment of wool, or a garment of flax,

English Revised Version
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

Berean Standard Bible
If any fabric is contaminated with mildew-any wool or linen garment,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A wollun cloth, ethir lynnun, that hath lepre in the warp,

Young's Literal Translation
`And when there is in any garment a plague of leprosy, -- in a garment of wool, or in a garment of linen,

Update Bible Version
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a wool garment, or a linen garment;

Webster's Bible Translation
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, [whether] a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

World English Bible
"The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

New Living Translation
"Now suppose mildew contaminates some woolen or linen clothing,

New Life Bible
When a mark of a bad skin disease is in a piece of clothing, wool or linen,

New Revised Standard
Concerning clothing: when a leprous disease appears in it, in woolen or linen cloth,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, in a garment, there is a plague-spot of leprosy, - whether in a garment of wool, or a garment of flax;

Douay-Rheims Bible
A woollen or linen garment that shall have the leprosy

Revised Standard Version
"When there is a leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment,

THE MESSAGE
"If clothing—woolen or linen clothing, woven or knitted cloth of linen or wool, leather or leatherwork—is infected with a patch of serious fungus and if the spot in the clothing or the leather or the woven or the knitted material or anything made of leather is greenish or rusty, that is a sign of serious fungus. Show it to the priest. The priest will examine the spot and then confiscate the material for seven days. On the seventh day he will reexamine the spot. If it has spread in the garment—the woven or knitted or leather material—it is the spot of a persistent serious fungus and the material is unclean. He must burn the garment. Because of the persistent and contaminating fungus, the material must be burned. But if when the priest examines it the spot has not spread in the garment, the priest will command the owner to wash the material that has the spot, and he will confiscate it for another seven days. He'll then make another examination after it has been washed; if the spot hasn't changed in appearance, even though it hasn't spread, it is still unclean. Burn it up, whether the fungus has affected the back or the front. If, when the priest makes his examination, the spot has faded after it has been washed, he is to tear the spot from the garment. But if it reappears, it is a fresh outbreak—throw whatever has the spot in the fire. If the garment is washed and the spot has gone away, then wash it a second time; it is clean.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When a garment has a mark of leprosy in it, whether it is a wool garment or a linen garment,

Contextual Overview

⁴⁷ "Also, if a garment has a leprous plague Leviticus 13:47-59">[fn] in it, whether it is a woolen garment or a linen garment, ⁴⁸ whether it is in the warp or woof of linen or wool, whether in leather or in anything made of leather, ⁴⁹ and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, it is a leprous plague and shall be shown to the priest. ⁵⁰ The priest shall examine the plague and isolate that which has the plague seven days. ⁵¹ And he shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, in the leather or in anything made of leather, the plague is an active leprosy. It is unclean. ⁵² He shall therefore burn that garment in which is the plague, whether warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, for it is an active leprosy; the garment shall be burned in the fire. ⁵³ "But if the priest examines it, and indeed the plague has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in anything made of leather, ⁵⁴ then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the plague; and he shall isolate it another seven days. ⁵⁵ Then the priest shall examine the plague after it has been washed; and indeed if the plague has not changed its color, though the plague has not spread, it is unclean, and you shall burn it in the fire; it continues eating away, whether the damage is outside or inside. ⁵⁶ If the priest examines it, and indeed the plague has faded after washing it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, whether out of the warp or out of the woof, or out of the leather.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The garment: This leprosy in garments appears so strange to us, that it has induced some, with Bp. Patrick, to consider it as an extraordinary punishment inflicted by God upon the Israelites, as a sign of his high displeasure; while others consider the leprosy in clothes - and also houses as having no relation to the leprosy in man. When Michaelis was considering the subject, he was told by a dealer in wool, that the wool of sheep which die of a disease, if it has not been shorn from the animal while living, is unfit to manufacture cloth, and liable to something like what Moses here describes, and which he imagines to be the plague of leprosy in garments. The whole account, however, as Dr. A. Clarke observes, seems to intimate that the garment was fretted by the contagion of the real leprosy; which it is probable was occasioned by a species of animacula, or vermin, burrowing in the skin, which we know to be the cause of the itch; these, by breeding in the garments, must necessarily multiply their kind, and fret the garments, i.e., corrode a portion of the finer parts, after the manner of moths, for their nourishment. The infection of garments has frequently been known to cause the worst species of scarlet fever, and even the plague; and those infected with psora, or itch animal, have communicated the disease even in six or seven years after the infection. Isaiah 3:16-24, Isaiah 59:6, Isaiah 64:6, Ezekiel 16:16, Romans 13:12, Ephesians 4:22, Colossians 3:3, Jude 1:23

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:55 - the leprosy

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The garments also, that the plague of leprosy is in,.... Whether this sort of leprosy proceeded from natural causes, or was extraordinary and miraculous, and came immediately from the hand of God, and was peculiar to the Jews, and unknown to other nations, is a matter of question; the latter is generally asserted by the Hebrew writers, as Maimonides e, Abraham Seba f, and others g; but others are of opinion, and Abarbinel among the Jews, that it might be by the contact or touch of a leprous person. Indeed it must be owned, as a learned man h observes, that the shirts and clothes of a leper must be equally infectious, and more so than any other communication with him; and the purulent matter which adheres thereunto must needs infect; such who put on their clothes; for it may be observed, that it will get between the threads of garments, and stick like glue, and fill them up, and by the acrimony of it corrode the texture itself; so that experience shows that it is very difficult to wash such a garment without a rupture, and the stains are not easily got out: and it must be allowed that garments may be scented by diseases, and become infectious, and carry a disease from place to place, as the plague oftentimes is carried in wool, cotton, silk, or any bale goods; but whether all this amounts to the case before us is still a question. Some indeed have endeavoured to account for it by observing, that wool ill scoured, stuffs kept too long, and some particular tapestries, are subject to worms and moths which eat them, and from hence think it credible, that the leprosy in clothes, and in skins here mentioned, was caused by this sort of vermin; to which, stuffs and works, wrought in wool in hot countries, and in times when arts and manufactures were not carried to the height of perfection as now, might probably be more exposed i; but this seems not to agree with this leprosy of Moses, which lay not in the garment being eaten, but in the colour and spread of it:

[whether it be] a woollen garment or a linen garment: and, according to the Misnic doctors k, only wool and linen were defiled by leprosy; Aben Ezra indeed says, that the reason why no mention is made of silk and cotton is because the Scripture speaks of what was found (then in use), as in Exodus 23:5; wherefore, according to him, woollen and linen are put for all other garments; though, he adds, or it may be the leprosy does not happen to anything but wool and linen; however, it is allowed, as Ben Gersom observes, that when the greatest part of the cloth is made of wool or linen, it was defiled by it: the Jewish canon is, if the greatest part is of camels hair, it is not defiled; but if the greatest part is of sheep, it is; and if half to half (or equal) it is defiled; and so flax, and hemp mixed together l; the same rule is to be observed concerning them.

e Hilchot Tumaat Tzarat, c. 16. sect. 10. f Tzeror Hammor, fol. 99. 3. g Ramban, Bechai, Isaac Arama, & alii, apud Muisium in loc. h Scheuchzer. Physica Sacra, vol. 2. p. 326. i Calmet's Dictionary, in the word "Leper". k Misn. Celaim, c. 9. sect, 1. l Ib. Negaim, c. 11. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The garment - Rather, The clothing, referring to the ordinary dress of the Israelites in the wilderness; namely,, a linen tunic with a fringe Numbers 15:38 and a woolen cloak or blanket thrown on in colder weather.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 47. The garment also — The whole account here seems to intimate that the garment was fretted by this contagion; and hence it is likely that it was occasioned by a species of small animals, which we know to be the cause of the itch; these, by breeding in the garments, must necessarily multiply their kind, and fret the garments, i. e., corrode a, portion of the finer parts, after the manner of moths, for their nourishment. See Leviticus 13:52.