Levítico 13:42

42 Pero si en su calvicie de la nuca o de las sienes le aparece una llaga rojiza, se trata de una infección que le ha brotado en la parte calva.

Levítico 13:42 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 13:42

And if there be
Or, "but if there be", or, "when there shall be" ^F25, or shall appear to be:

in the bald head, or in the bald forehead, a white reddish sore;
white and red mixed, as the Targum of Jonathan, having something of both colours, neither a clear white nor thorough red; though, according to Bochart, it should be rendered "a white sore exceeding bright"; (See Gill on Leviticus 13:19);

it [is] a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or in his bald forehead;
the signs of which were raw flesh and spreading; so it is said in the Misnah ^F26,

``those two sorts of baldness defile in two weeks, by two signs, by quick raw flesh and by spreading;''

if there was the bright spot and no quick flesh, then he was to be shut up seven days, and looked upon at the end of them; and if there was either quick flesh or a spreading, he was pronounced unclean, but if neither, he was shut up seven days more; and if either of the above signs appeared he was pronounced unclean, if not he was set free.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (ykw) "sin autem", V. L. "quum autem", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator Drusius.
F26 Ut supra. (Misn. Negaim, c. 10. sect. 10.)

Levítico 13:42 In-Context

40 »Si a alguien se le cae el pelo de la nuca, y se queda calvo, es puro.

41 Si se le cae el pelo de las sienes y se queda calvo, también es puro.

42 Pero si en su calvicie de la nuca o de las sienes le aparece una llaga rojiza, se trata de una infección que le ha brotado en la parte calva.

43 El sacerdote deberá examinarlo. Si la inflamación es rojiza, parecida a las infecciones de la piel,

44 se trata entonces de una persona infectada e impura. El sacerdote la declarará impura por esa llaga en la cabeza.