“He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.”
He must burn the fabric, the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather article that has this defiling mildew in it; it must be burned, because it is a persistent defiling mildew. The defiled, spreading fabric is burned — the same outside-the-precinct disposal as the defiled offerings and the defiled bodies. The burning communicates the thorough removal of the defiling condition: the fabric that cannot be cleansed must be destroyed. The consistency of the burning-as-disposal principle across defiled skin, defiled offerings, and defiled fabric communicates the consistent response to the defiling in all its material manifestations.
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