Today is the 22nd day of February. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you in the rolling hills of Tennessee with plenty of jet lag to abound.

As we kind of reemerge and reenter into normal life after having spent the last couple of weeks in the land of the Bible, it is wonderful to be back in Tennessee.

And it is wonderful to be around the global campfire today as we gather.

Out of all of the different things that are going on, the little choices that we have to make, the things we have to do, the obligations that we have, the responsibilities.

We just come in here and allow the scriptures to inform all of that and speak peace into our souls.

And so let's dive in.

We are moving back into the book of Leviticus. We are reading from the new living translation this week and we will pick up where we left off yesterday, which brings us to Leviticus 13 today.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, if anyone has a swelling or a rash or discolored skin that might develop into a serious skin disease, that person must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons.

The priest will examine the affected area of the skin. If the hair in the affected area has turned white and the problem appears to be more than skin deep, it is a serious skin disease.

And the priest who examines it must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean.

But if the affected area of the skin is only a white discoloration and does not appear to be more than skin deep, and if the hair on the spot is not turned white, the priest will quarantine the person for seven days.

On the seventh day, the priest will make another examination. If he finds the affected area has not changed and the problem has not spread on the skin, the priest will quarantine the person for seven more days.

On the seventh day, the priest will make another examination. If he finds the affected area has faded and has not spread, the priest will pronounce the person ceremonially clean and is only a rash.

The person's clothing must be washed and the person will be ceremonially clean. But if the rash continues to spread after the person has been examined by the priest and has been pronounced clean, the infected person must return to be examined again.

If the priest finds that the rash has spread, he must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean, for it is indeed a skin disease.

Anyone who develops a serious skin disease must go to the priest for an examination.

If the priest finds a white swelling on the skin and some hair on the spot has turned white and there is an open sore in the affected area, it is a chronic skin disease and the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean.

In such cases, the person need not be quarantined, for it is obvious that the skin is defiled by the disease.

Now suppose the disease is spread all over the person's skin, covering the body from head to foot.

When the priest examines the infected person and finds that the disease covers the entire body, he will pronounce the person ceremonially clean.

Since the skin has turned completely white, the person is clean.

But if any open sores appear, the infected person will be pronounced ceremonially unclean.

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