A man who has lost his hair and is bald is clean. The baldness regulations establish that natural hair loss — baldness at the back of the head or general baldness — is not a defiling condition. Baldness is clean. The declaration that baldness is not a defiling skin disease addresses the obvious concern that the hair-loss criteria applied to active skin disease might be misapplied to natural baldness. The covenant's clean/unclean system addresses conditions; natural physical variations like baldness are not conditions requiring priestly evaluation.

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