Bible Verses about βleprosyβ
The Bible contains 50 verses about leprosy across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βThen the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it [be] in sight deeper than the skin; [and there be] in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a dry scall, [even] a leprosy upon the head or beard.β
ββΉHeal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.βΊβ
βAnd when he saw [them], he said unto them, βΉGo shew yourselves unto the priests.βΊ And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.β
βAnd as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:β
βAnd they lifted up [their] voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.β
βAnd Jesus put forth [his] hand, and touched him, saying, βΉI will; be thou clean.βΊ And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.β
βThen the priest shall come and look, and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the house, it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house: it [is] unclean.β
βAnd Jesus saith unto him, βΉSee thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.βΊβ
βAnd he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:β
βAnd Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth [his] hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, βΉI will; be thou clean.βΊβ
βAnd as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.β
βAnd he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:β
βAnd he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:β
βΒΆ And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,β
βWhen ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;β
βAnd he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me [there is] as it were a plague in the house:β
βThen the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go [into it] to see the plague, that all that [is] in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:β
βAnd he shall look on the plague, and, behold, [if] the plague [be] in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight [are] lower than the wall;β
βThen the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:β
βAnd the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the walls of the house;β
βThen the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague [is], and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:β
βAnd he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:β
βAnd they shall take other stones, and put [them] in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.β
βAnd if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;β
βAnd he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city into an unclean place.β
βMoreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.β
βAnd he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.β
βAnd if the priest shall come in, and look [upon it], and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.β
βAnd he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:β
βBut he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.β
βΒΆ And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.β
βAnd the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and [when] the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight [be] deeper than the skin of his flesh, it [is] a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.β
βThis [is] the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.β
βΒΆ The flesh also, in which, [even] in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,β
βAll the days wherein the plague [shall be] in him he shall be defiled; he [is] unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp [shall] his habitation [be].β
βAnd in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;β
βAnd if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it [be] in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.β
βBut if the priest look on it, and, behold, [there be] no white hairs therein, and [if] it [be] not lower than the skin, but [be] somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:β
βAnd if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it [is] a plague.β
βBut if the bright spot stay in his place, [and] spread not, it [is] a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.β
βThen shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:β
βThe leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.β
βAnd the priest shall see [him]: and, behold, [if] the rising [be] white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and [there be] quick raw flesh in the rising;β
βHe shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it [is] a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.β
βIf the bright spot [be] white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight [be] not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the plague seven days:β
βAnd he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he [is] forehead bald: [yet is] he clean.β
βAnd the leper in whom the plague [is], his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.β
βAs for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird [that was] killed over the running water:β
βΒΆ This [is] the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,β
βAnd for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,β
