Leviticus 13

¹ God give Moses and Aaron these laws.

² If anyone get wound for skin or boil or infection wey fit turn to skin disease, make dem bring am to Aaronite priest.

³ The priest go check the wound, and if the hair wey dey inside am don turn white and the wound deep pass the skin wey surround am, na terrible skin disease e be, and the priest go say the person dey unclean.

⁴ But if the wound white and e no deep pass the skin wey surround am and the hair don turn white, the priest go keep the person somewhere for seven days.

⁵ The priest go check him again on the seventh day, and if he see say the wound still look the same and e never spread, he go keep him for another seven days.

⁶ The priest go check him again on the seventh day, and if the wound don fade and e no spread, he go say him don dey clean; na only wound. The person go wash him cloth and become clean.

⁷ But if the wound dey spread after the priest don say he dey clean, make he appear before the priest again.

⁸ The priest go check the person, and if the rashes don spread for the skin, he go call them unclean; na terrible skin disease e be.

⁹ If anyone get terrible skin disease, make dem bring him to the priest,

¹⁰ he go check him. If a white wound wey dey for him skin don turn the hair white and pus full am,

¹¹ na chronic skin disease e be. The priest go say he dey unclean; no need to keep him separate, because he dey show say he dey unclean.

¹² if the skin disease spread and cover the person from head to toe,

¹³ the priest go examine him again. If he see say he don cover all the body, he go say the person dey clean. If all him skin don turn white, he dey ritually clean.

¹⁴ But from moment wey open wound show, he don turn unclean.

¹⁵ The priest go check him again, and if he see open wound, he go talk say he no dey clean. Open skin wound mean say na terrible disease, and the person no dey clean.

¹⁶ But when the wound don heal and e don turn white again, the person go meet the priest,

¹⁷ he go check him again. If the wound don turn white, he dey clean, and the priest go talk say he dey clean.

¹⁸ If anyone get boil wey don heal

¹⁹ and if later a white or reddish-white spot show for where the boil dey before, he go meet the priest.

²⁰ The priest go check him, and if the wound deep pass skin wey surround am and the hair wey dey inside am don turn white, he go talk say he no dey clean. Na terrible skin disease don start inside the boil.

²¹ But if the priest check am and see say the hair inside am never turn white and e no deep pass surrounding skin, but e dey light in color, the priest go keep him separate for seven days.

²² If the spot spread, the priest go talk say he dey unclean; he get disease.

²³ But if e no change and no spread, na just scar of the boil e be, and the priest go talk say he dey clean.

²⁴ For case of person wey fire don burn, if the raw flesh turn white or reddish-white,

²⁵ the priest go check him. If the hair in the spot don turn white and e dey show say e deep pass surrounding skin, na terrible skin disease don start inside the burn, and the priest go talk say he dey unclean.

²⁶ But if the hair inside am never turn white, and e no deep pass surrounding skin, but the color light, the priest go keep him separate for seven days.

²⁷ The priest go check him again on the seventh day, and if e dey spread, na terrible skin disease, and the priest go talk say he no dey clean.

²⁸ But if the spot no change and e no spread and the color dey light, e no be terrible disease. The priest go talk say he dey ritually clean, because na just scar from the burn.

²⁹ When a man or woman get wound for head or chin,

³⁰ the priest go check am. If e dey deep pass skin wey surround am and hair inside am dey yellowish and thin, na terrible skin disease, and he go talk say the person no dey clean.

³¹ If when the priest check him, the wound no look like say e deep pass surrounding skin, but good hair still no dey inside am, he go keep him separate for seven days.

³² The priest go check the wound again on seventh day, and if e never spread and e no get yellowish hair inside am and e no look like say e deep pass surrounding skin,

³³ the person go shave the head except the area wey get wound. The priest go come keep him separate for another seven days.

³⁴ On the seventh day the priest go check the wound again, and if e never spread and e no look like say e dey deep pass surrounding skin, he go talk say the person dey clean. The person go wash him cloth, and he go dey clean.

³⁵ But if the wound spread after he don say the person dey clean,

³⁶ the priest go check him again. If the wound don spread, he no need to find yellowish hair; the person don really dey unclean.

³⁷ But if the priest believe say the wound no spread and good hair dey grow inside am, the wound don heal, and the priest go tell him say he dey clean.

³⁸ When a man or woman get white spot for skin,

³⁹ the priest go check that person. If the spot na dull white, na only blemish wey don come out on the skin; the person dey clean.

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⁴¹ If a man lost him hair for back or front of him head, e no make him dey unclean.

⁴² But if a reddish-white wound show for the spot wey hair no dey, na terrible skin disease.

⁴³ The priest go check him, and if reddish-white wound dey there,

⁴⁴ the priest go talk say he no dey clean, because of the skin disease wey dey him head.

⁴⁵ A person wey get terrible skin disease must wear cloth wey don tear, leave him hair rough, cover lower part of him face, and cry out, “Unclean, unclean!”

⁴⁶ He go remain unclean as long as he get the disease, and na outside camp he go dey live, away from others.

⁴⁷ When mildew dey for cloth, whether wool or linen,

⁴⁸ or any piece of linen or wool cloth or for leather or anything wey dem use leather make,

⁴⁹ if e dey like green or red, na spreading mildew and make dem show am to the priest.

⁵⁰ The priest go check am and put the object away for seven days.

⁵¹ He go check am again on seventh day, and if the mildew don spread, the object no dey clean.

⁵² The priest go burn am, because na spreading mildew wey be say na fire dem go use destroy am.

⁵³ But if the priest see say the mildew no spread when he check am,

⁵⁴ he go order say make dem wash am and keep am for another seven days.

⁵⁵ Then he go check am, and if the mildew never change color, even though e no spread, e still dey unclean; una go burn the object, whether the rot dey front or back.

⁵⁶ But if the mildew don fade when the priest check am, he go tear am commot for the cloth or leather.

⁵⁷ Then if the mildew show again, e dey spread again, and the owner go burn the object.

⁵⁸ If he wash the object and the spot disappear, he go wash am again, and e go dey ritually clean.

⁵⁹ Na the law about mildew on cloth, whether e be wool or linen, or for linen or wool cloth or anything wey dem make with leather; na how you go decide whether e dey ritually clean or unclean be this.