But if the shiny spot is unchanged and has not spread, it is only a scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce them clean. The stable, non-spreading spot at the healed-boil site is declared clean: it is only a scar from the boil. The scar is not a defiling condition; it is the residue of a healed condition. The distinction between the active defiling disease and the residual scar communicates the covenant's consistent principle: it is the active, spreading condition that defiles, not the remnant of a resolved one.

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