The priest is to examine them, and if the sore has spread in the skin, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair; they are unclean. The post-declaration spread confirms defilement without requiring the yellow hair criterion: spreading alone is sufficient to declare unclean after a previous clean declaration. The spread criterion overrides the need for additional diagnostic markers once the condition has been declared clean and then begun to spread. The decisive nature of spreading in the post-declaration context communicates the system's progressive logic.

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