The Lord said to Moses and Aaron. The skin disease regulations — the most extensive diagnostic section in the Torah — are addressed to both Moses and Aaron: Moses as the law's receiver and Aaron as the high priest whose family will administer the regulations. The address to both leaders communicates that the skin disease regulations require both legal authority (Moses) and priestly expertise (Aaron). The regulations that follow are not primarily medical but liturgical: the priest's role is not to cure the disease but to determine its ritual status — clean or unclean — and to manage the covenant community's response.

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