“Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.”
The priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease on the head or chin. The diagnostic criteria for the head and chin are adapted: instead of white hair (the criterion for general skin areas), yellow and thin hair is the diagnostic marker for the head and chin. The different hair color criterion for the hair-bearing areas communicates the diagnostic sophistication of the examination process: the priest applies context-appropriate criteria rather than mechanically applying the same criterion in every case.
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