“Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.”
The priest is to examine it, and if the hair in the shiny spot has turned white and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease. The diagnostic criteria applied to the burn-site presentation are the same as for every other presentation: white hair and depth. The burn context does not modify the diagnostic framework; the priest applies the same criteria he would apply to any other presentation. The consistency of the criteria across different skin contexts communicates the systematic character of the examination process.
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