02.11.2016 Old Testament: Lev 13.40–44

To read the Bible in a year, read Leviticus 13 on February 11, In the year of our Lord 2016

By Don Ruhl

As the Lord instructed the Moses on how the priests were to examine someone for leprosy, He said this about baldness in a man,

“As for the man whose hair has fallen from his head, he is bald, but he is clean. He whose hair has fallen from his forehead, he is bald on the forehead, but he is clean. And if there is on the bald head or bald forehead a reddish-white sore, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead. Then the priest shall examine it; and indeed if the swelling of the sore is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy on the skin of the body, he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his sore is on his head” (Leviticus 13.40–44).

If a man lost his hair, while it was not desired, that did not mean that he had something wrong with him, but if the priest examined him and found potential evidence of leprosy, then they had to follow certain procedures.

Most men I know do not want to go bald, nevertheless, we consider it part of aging and that is life. We do not like it, but what else can we do?