Leviticus 13:40
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.”
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BSBPD
“Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And if a man’s hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“`And when a man's head <FI>is<Fi> polished, he <FI>is<Fi> bald, he <FI>is<Fi> clean;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Leviticus 13:40 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 13:41Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.
- 2 Kings 2:23From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
- Song of Solomon 5:11His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
- Isaiah 15:2Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
- Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
- Romans 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
- Romans 6:19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
- Romans 8:10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- Galatians 4:13You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
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