Verse Lens · Context pointer
Leviticus 13:20 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 20. 20And 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.
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Role in This Section
This verse declares the condition unclean when depth and white hair meet the stated signs.
Read It With
- Leviticus 13:18-28
Place Leviticus 13:20 inside 13:18-28. This verse declares the condition unclean when depth and white hair meet the stated signs. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: Changes arising at a healed boil or burn are evaluated by depth, hair, brightness, spread, and seven-day observation.
Why It Needs Context
The verse declares the condition unclean when depth and white hair meet the stated signs. Follow Leviticus 13:18-28 before drawing an enduring truth, since the surrounding case determines what this detail does and does not establish.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 13:18-28 — Boils and burns receive their own inspection pathsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 13:18-28, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 13:18-28
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