“And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.”
But if he has a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a defiling disease breaking out on his head or forehead. The exception to the baldness-is-clean principle: a reddish-white sore on the bald head or forehead is a defiling disease presentation. The natural baldness is clean; the reddish-white sore on the bald skin is not. The distinction communicates that the clean/unclean concern is with active, presenting conditions, not with natural physical states. The bald person who develops a sore on their bald area must be evaluated by the same criteria as anyone else.
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