When the priest sees the raw flesh, he shall pronounce them unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it is a defiling skin disease. The priest's declaration when raw flesh appears: unclean. The raw flesh that was the sign of depth and activity in verse 3 is the same raw flesh that triggers the unclean declaration when it appears within an otherwise-resolved condition. The consistency of the raw flesh criterion across different stages of the disease communicates the underlying diagnostic logic: active, depth-penetrating disease defiles; stable, surface condition can be clean.

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