“Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;”
The priest is to examine him, and if the swollen sore on his head or forehead is reddish-white like a defiling skin disease appearing on the skin of his body. The priest examines the bald-area sore and compares it to the general skin disease presentations. The comparison to the skin of his body — the general skin disease criteria — grounds the baldness-area evaluation in the same diagnostic framework as every other skin disease examination. The baldness context does not require different criteria; the same reddish-white swelling that defiles on regular skin defiles on bald skin.
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