“And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.”
On the seventh day the priest is to examine that person, and if it has spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease. Spreading during the burn-site isolation period confirms the defiling disease. The consistency of the spreading criterion — in every context, spreading confirms defilement — makes the examination process systematic and predictable. The priest who applies the spreading criterion to the burn-site presentation is applying the same criterion he has applied to every other ambiguous case.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!