TOPICAL BIBLE
Sanitation
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Leviticus 13:37If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.Leviticus 13:38When a man or a woman has white spots on the skin,Leviticus 13:39the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.Leviticus 13:40Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.Leviticus 13:41Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.Leviticus 13:42But if there is a reddish-white sore on the bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease breaking out on it.Leviticus 13:43The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white like a skin disease,Leviticus 13:44the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head.Leviticus 13:45A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’Leviticus 13:46As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.Leviticus 13:47If any fabric is contaminated with mildew—any wool or linen garment,Leviticus 13:48any weave or knit of linen or wool, or any article of leather—Leviticus 13:49and if the mark in the fabric, leather, weave, knit, or leather article is green or red, then it is contaminated with mildew and must be shown to the priest.Leviticus 13:50And the priest is to examine the mildew and isolate the contaminated fabric for seven days.Leviticus 13:51On the seventh day the priest shall reexamine it, and if the mildew has spread in the fabric, weave, knit, or leather, then regardless of how it is used, it is a harmful mildew; the article is unclean.Leviticus 13:52He is to burn the fabric, weave, or knit, whether the contaminated item is wool or linen or leather. Since the mildew is harmful, the article must be burned up.Leviticus 13:53But when the priest reexamines it, if the mildew has not spread in the fabric, weave, knit, or leather article,Leviticus 13:54the priest is to order the contaminated article to be washed and isolated for another seven days.Leviticus 13:55After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine it, and if the mildewed article has not changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or back.Leviticus 13:56If the priest examines it and the mildew has faded after it has been washed, he must cut the contaminated section out of the fabric, leather, weave, or knit.Leviticus 13:57But if it reappears in the fabric, weave, or knit, or on any leather article, it is spreading. You must burn the contaminated article.Leviticus 13:58If the mildew disappears from the fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article after washing, then it is to be washed again, and it will be clean.Leviticus 13:59This is the law concerning a mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.”Leviticus 14:2“This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.Leviticus 14:3The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed,Leviticus 14:8The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.Leviticus 14:9On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.Leviticus 14:34“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land,Leviticus 14:35the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘Something like mildew has appeared in my house.’Leviticus 14:36The priest must order that the house be cleared before he enters it to examine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will become unclean. After this, the priest shall go in to inspect the house.Leviticus 14:37He is to examine the house, and if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,Leviticus 14:38the priest shall go outside the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.Leviticus 14:39On the seventh day the priest is to return and inspect the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls,Leviticus 14:40he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.Leviticus 14:41And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.Leviticus 14:42So different stones must be obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional mortar to replaster the house.Leviticus 14:43If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house has been scraped and replastered,Leviticus 14:44the priest must come and inspect it. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.Leviticus 14:45It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.Leviticus 14:46Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening.Leviticus 14:47And anyone who sleeps in the house or eats in it must wash his clothes.Leviticus 14:48If, however, the priest comes and inspects it, and the mildew has not spread after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the mildew is gone.Leviticus 14:54This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,Leviticus 14:55for mildew in clothing or in a house,Leviticus 14:56and for a swelling, rash, or spot,Leviticus 14:57to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”Leviticus 15:2“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.Leviticus 15:3This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.Leviticus 15:4Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies will be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits will be unclean.Leviticus 15:5Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.Leviticus 15:6Whoever sits on furniture on which the man with the discharge was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.Leviticus 15:7Whoever touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.Leviticus 15:8If the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.Leviticus 15:9Any saddle on which the man with the discharge rides will be unclean.Leviticus 15:10Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.Leviticus 15:11If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands with water, the one who was touched must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.Leviticus 15:12Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.Leviticus 15:13When the man has been cleansed from his discharge, he must count off seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe himself in fresh water, and he shall be clean.Leviticus 15:16When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean until evening.Leviticus 15:17Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening.