⁹If anyone has a dreaded skin disease, he shall be brought to the priest, ¹⁰who will examine him. If there is a white sore on his skin which turns the hairs white and is full of pus, ¹¹it is a chronic skin disease. The priest shall pronounce him unclean; there is no need to isolate him, because he is obviously unclean. ¹²If the skin disease spreads and covers the person from head to foot, ¹³the priest shall examine him again. If he finds that it actually has covered the whole body, he shall pronounce the person ritually clean. If his whole skin has turned white, he is ritually clean. ¹⁴But from the moment an open sore appears, he is unclean. ¹⁵The priest shall examine him again, and if he sees an open sore, he shall pronounce him unclean. An open sore means a dreaded skin disease, and the person is unclean. ¹⁶But when the sore heals and becomes white again, the person shall go to the priest, ¹⁷who will examine him again. If the sore has turned white, he is ritually clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

¹⁸If anyone has a boil that has healed ¹⁹and if afterwards a white swelling or a reddish-white spot appears where the boil was, he shall go to the priest. ²⁰The priest shall examine him, and if the spot seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it have turned white, he shall pronounce him unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease that has started in the boil. ²¹But if the priest examines it and finds that the hairs in it have not turned white and that it is not deeper than the surrounding skin, but is light in colour, the priest shall isolate him for seven days. ²²If the spot spreads, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he is diseased. ²³But if it remains unchanged and does not spread, it is only the scar left from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him ritually clean.

²⁴In the case of a person who has been burnt, if the raw flesh becomes white or reddish-white, ²⁵the priest shall examine him. If the hairs in the spot have turned white and it appears deeper than the surrounding skin, it is a dreaded skin disease that has started in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. ²⁶But if the hairs in it have not turned white and it is not deeper than the surrounding skin, but is light in colour, the priest shall isolate him for seven days. ²⁷The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if it is spreading, it is a dreaded skin disease, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. ²⁸But if the spot remains unchanged and does not spread and is light in colour, it is not a dreaded skin disease. The priest shall pronounce him ritually clean, because it is only a scar from the burn.

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