A moment in scripture
Leviticus 13:45
And 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.
The surrounding passage
- Leviticus 13:43
Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
- Leviticus 13:44
He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
- Leviticus 13:46
All 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.
- Leviticus 13:47
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.