Leviticus 14:3

Revised Standard Version

and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall make an examination. Then, if the leprous disease is healed in the leper,

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and the Kohen shall go forth out of the camp. The Kohen shall examine him, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,

King James Version
And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;

Lexham English Bible
and the priest shall go outside the camp, and the priest shall examine him, and if the skin disease's infection is healed on the afflicted person,

New Century Version
and the priest must go outside the camp and look at the one who had the skin disease. If the skin disease is healed,

New English Translation
The priest is to go outside the camp and examine the infection. If the infection of the diseased person has been healed,

Amplified Bible
the priest shall go out of the camp [to meet him]; and the priest shall examine him, and if the leper has been healed of the infection of leprosy,

New American Standard Bible
and the priest shall go out to a place outside of the camp. Then the priest shall look, and if the leprous infection has been healed in the person with leprosy,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Priest shall go out of the campe, & the Priest shall consider him: and if the plague of leprosie be healed in the leper,

Legacy Standard Bible
and the priest shall go out to the outside of the camp. Thus the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper,

Complete Jewish Bible
and the cohen is to go outside the camp and examine him there. If he sees that the tzara‘at sores have been healed in the afflicted person,

Darby Translation
and the priest shall go out of the camp; and when the priest looketh, and behold, the sore of leprosy is healed in the leper,

Easy-to-Read Version
The priest must go to them outside the camp and look to see if the skin disease is healed.

English Standard Version
and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person,

George Lamsa Translation
And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,

Good News Translation
and the priest shall take you outside the camp and examine you. If the disease is healed,

Christian Standard Bible®
who will go outside the camp and examine him. If the skin disease has disappeared from the afflicted person,

Literal Translation
And the priest shall go out to the outside of the camp. And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and the prest shal go out of the hoost, and loke how the plage of leprosye is healed vpon the leper.

American Standard Version
and the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper,

Bible in Basic English
And the priest is to go outside the tent-circle; and if, after looking, the priest sees that the mark of the disease has gone from him,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the priest shal go out without the campe, and the priest shall loke vpon hym, and yf the plague of leprosie be healed in the leper,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;

King James Version (1611)
And the Priest shall goe forth out of the campe, and the Priest shall looke: and beholde, if the plague of leprosie be healed in the leper,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the priest shall come forth out of the camp, and the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague of the leprosy is removed from the leper.

English Revised Version
and the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;

Berean Standard Bible
The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
which preest schal go out of the castels, and whanne he schal fynde that the lepre is clensid,

Young's Literal Translation
and the priest hath gone out unto the outside of the camp, and the priest hath seen, and lo, the plague of leprosy hath ceased from the leper,

Update Bible Version
and the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look; and see if the plague of leprosy has healed in the leper,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall go forth out of the camp: and the priest shall look, and behold, [if] the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper;

World English Bible
and the priest shall go forth out of the camp. The priest shall examine him, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,

New King James Version
And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine him; and indeed, if the leprosy is healed in the leper,

New Living Translation
who will examine them at a place outside the camp. If the priest finds that someone has been healed of a serious skin disease,

New Life Bible
The religious leader will go away from the tents and look at him. If the sick person has been healed of the bad skin disease,

New Revised Standard
the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall make an examination. If the disease is healed in the leprous person,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shall the priest go forth unto the outside of the camp, - and the priest shall take a view, and lo! if the plague of leprosy hath been healed out of the leper,;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who going out of the camp, when he shall find that the leprosy is cleansed,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the priest shall go out to the outside of the camp. Thus the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper,

Contextual Overview

¹ The LORD said to Moses, ² "This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest; ³ and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall make an examination. Then, if the leprous disease is healed in the leper, ⁴ the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet stuff and hyssop; ⁵ and the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. ⁶ He shall take the living bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet stuff and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water; ⁷ and he shall sprinkle it seven times upon him who is to be cleansed of leprosy; then he shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field. ⁸ And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean; and after that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days. ⁹ And on the seventh day he shall shave all his hair off his head; he shall shave off his beard and his eyebrows, all his hair. Then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

go forth: Lepers were obliged to live in a detached situation, separate from other people, and to keep themselves actually at a distance from them. They were distinguished by a peculiar dress; and if any person approached, they were bound to give him warning, by crying out, Unclean! unclean!

out of: Leviticus 13:46

be healed: Exodus 15:26, 2 Kings 5:3, 2 Kings 5:7, 2 Kings 5:8, 2 Kings 5:14, Job 5:18, Matthew 10:8, Matthew 11:5, Luke 4:27, Luke 7:22, Luke 17:15, Luke 17:16-19, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:2 - the plague of leprosy Leviticus 14:48 - shall come in

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomor'rah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;

Numbers 34:12
and the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and its end shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all round."

Deuteronomy 3:17
the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the boundary, from Chin'nereth as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

Joshua 3:16
the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap far off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zar'ethan, and those flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off; and the people passed over opposite Jericho.

Psalms 107:34
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the priest shall go forth out of the camp,.... A little without the camp, as Ben Gersom notes. There have been several goings forth of Christ our High Priest; first in the council and covenant of grace and peace, when he became the surety of his people; then in time by the assumption of human nature, when he came forth from his Father, and came into the world to save them; next, when he went forth out of the city of Jerusalem to suffer for them; and also, when, at the time of conversion, he goes forth in quest of them, and looks them up, and finds them, and brings them home, which may answer to the type here; and all shows the great readiness of Christ to receive sinners:

and the priest shall look, and, behold, [if] the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; that all the signs of uncleanness are removed, the swelling, the scab, or bright spot, and the white hair in them, and, instead of that, black hair is grown up. The typical priest did not heal, nor could he, the healing was of God; he only looked to see by signs if the plague was healed; but our antitypical priest looks with an eye of pity and compassion on leprous sinners, and they are enabled to look to him by faith, and virtue goes out of him to the healing of their diseases; as he looks upon them in their blood, and says to them, Live, so he looks upon them in their leprosy, and touches them, and says, "I will, be thou clean", Matthew 8:3, and they are immediately healed; he is the sun of righteousness, which arises upon them with healing in his wings.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 14:3. The priest shall go forth out of the camp — As the leper was separated from the people, and obliged, because of his uncleanness, to dwell without the camp, and could not be admitted till the priest had declared that he was clean; hence it was necessary that the priest should go out and inspect him, and, if healed, offer for him the sacrifices required, in order to his re-admission to the camp. As the priest alone had authority to declare a person clean or unclean, it was necessary that the healed person should show himself to the priest, that he might make a declaration that he was clean and fit for civil and religious society, without which, in no case, could he be admitted; hence, when Christ cleansed the lepers, Matthew 8:2-4, he commanded them to go and show themselves to the priest, &c.