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An attendant lowers a stained garment into a small outdoor fire while the priest watches. The accompanying verses describe the seventh-day examination and the instruction to burn the affected article.
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Leviticus 13:51-52

A spreading textile outbreak burned

Examining Skin and Garments · Leviticus 13

Story guide: An attendant lowers a stained garment into a small outdoor fire while the priest watches. The accompanying verses describe the seventh-day examination and the instruction to burn the affected article.

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51On the seventh day he shall examine the infection, and if the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather, in anything for which leather is made for work, the infection is a destructive skin disease; it is unclean.

52He shall burn the garment, or the warp or the woof in wool or in linen, or any article of leather in which the infection is, for it is a destructive skin disease; it shall be burned in the fire.

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