“And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:”
On the seventh day the priest is to examine them again, and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to isolate them for another seven days. If the condition has not changed after the first seven days — neither resolving nor spreading — the priest orders a second seven-day isolation period. The extended observation communicates the covenant's careful approach to the unclean declaration: the priest does not rush to judgment but allows the condition to declare itself through its development. The two-seven-day structure mirrors other significant seven-day periods in the covenant calendar and creates a fourteen-day total observation before a final determination is made.
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