It is a chronic skin disease and the priest shall pronounce them unclean. He is not to isolate them, because they are already unclean. The chronic skin disease does not require the seven-day isolation period: the condition is so clearly defiling that the immediate unclean declaration is appropriate. The already unclean phrase communicates that the isolation period exists only for ambiguous cases; when the condition is clearly defiling, immediate declaration follows. The priest's efficiency in the clear case — no delay, no waiting period — reflects the system's responsiveness to the actual condition.

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