He is a diseased man and is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean because of the sore on his head. The clean declaration for natural baldness contrasted with the unclean declaration for the reddish-white sore: the person's natural physical state is clean; the active diseased condition on that natural state is unclean. The distinction between the person (clean as a naturally bald person) and the condition (unclean because of the sore) is the Levitical system's consistent approach: natural states are not defiling, active disease conditions are.

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