KJV ORIGINAL
And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
If a man's hair has fallen out and he is bald, he is still ceremonially clean.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse clarifies that natural baldness doesn't make someone ceremonially unclean or unable to participate in worship.
📚 Historical Context
This verse comes from Leviticus 13, which contains detailed laws about identifying and handling skin diseases, particularly leprosy. The Israelites needed clear guidelines to distinguish between serious contagious conditions that required quarantine and normal conditions like baldness that posed no health risk to the community.
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