16. However, if the open sores heal and turn white like the rest of the skin, the person must return to the priest
17. for another examination. If the affected areas have indeed turned white, the priest will then pronounce the person ceremonially clean by declaring, ‘You are clean!’
18. “If anyone has a boil on the skin that has started to heal,
19. but a white swelling or a reddish white spot develops in its place, that person must go to the priest to be examined.
20. If the priest examines it and finds it to be more than skin-deep, and if the hair in the affected area has turned white, the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. The boil has become a serious skin disease.
21. But if the priest finds no white hair on the affected area and the problem appears to be no more than skin-deep and has faded, the priest must quarantine the person for seven days.