Imamat 13:20

13:20 The priest will then examine it, ¹  and if ²  it appears to be deeper than the skin ³  and its hair has turned white, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. ⁴  It is a diseased infection that has broken out in the boil. ⁵ 

Imamat 13:25

13:25 the priest must examine it, ⁶  and if ⁷  the hair has turned white in the bright spot and it appears to be deeper than the skin, ⁸  it is a disease that has broken out in the burn. ⁹  The priest is to pronounce the person unclean. ¹⁰  It is a diseased infection. ¹¹ 

Imamat 13:32

13:32 The priest must then examine the infection on the seventh day, and if ¹²  the scall has not spread, there is no reddish yellow hair in it, and the scall does not appear to be deeper than the skin, ¹³ 

Imamat 13:34

13:34 The priest must then examine the scall on the seventh day, and if ¹⁴  the scall has not spread on the skin and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, ¹⁵  then the priest is to pronounce him clean. ¹⁶  So he is to wash his clothes and be clean.

[13:20]  ¹ tn Heb “and the priest shall see.” The pronoun “it” is unexpressed, but it should be assumed and it refers to the infection (cf. the note on v. 8 above).

[13:20]  ² tn Heb “and behold.”

[13:20]  ³ tn Heb “and behold its appearance is low (שָׁפָל, shafal) ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, “lower than”) the skin.” Compare “deeper” in v. 3 above where, however, a different word is used (עָמֹק, ’amoq), and see the note on “swelling” in v. 1 above (cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 192; note that, contrary to the MT, Tg. Onq. has עָמֹק in this verse as well as v. 4). The alternation of these two terms (i.e., “deeper” and “lower”) in vv. 25-26 below shows that they both refer to the same phenomenon. Some have argued that “this sore was lower than the surrounding skin” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:773, 788), in which case “swelling” would be an inappropriate translation of שְׂאֵת (sÿ’et) in v. 19. It seems unlikely, however, that the surface of a “boil” would sink below the surface of the surrounding skin. The infectious pus etc. that makes up a boil normally causes swelling.

[13:20]  ⁴ tn The declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tame’, cf. the note on v. 3 above).

[13:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “It is an infection of disease. In the boil it has broken out.” For the rendering “diseased infection” see the note on v. 2 above.

[13:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the priest shall see it.”

[13:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

[13:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “and its appearance is deep ‘from’ [comparative מִן (min) meaning ‘deeper than’] the skin.”

[13:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “it is a disease. In the burn it has broken out.”

[13:25]  ¹⁰ tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָמֵא (tame’; cf. the note on v. 3 above).

[13:25]  ¹¹ tn For the rendering “diseased infection” see the note on v. 2 above.

[13:32]  ¹² tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

[13:32]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the appearance of the scall is not deep ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, meaning “deeper than”) the skin.”

[13:34]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

[13:34]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and its appearance is not deep ‘from’ (comparative מִן, min, meaning “deeper than”) the skin.”

[13:34]  ¹⁶ tn This is the declarative Piel of the verb טָהֵר (taher, cf. the note on v. 6 above).