“And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.”
The priest is to examine it, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce them unclean. It has broken out in the place of the boil. The same diagnostic criteria as the general skin disease regulations: depth greater than the skin surface and white hair within the spot. The healed-boil context does not change the diagnostic criteria; the criteria for defiling skin disease are the same regardless of the condition's origin. The depth and white hair together confirm a defiling disease even when the presenting location is the site of a previously healed boil.
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