These are the regulations for any diseased person at the time of their ceremonial cleansing, when they are brought to the priest. The regulations begin with the condition of restoration: the person is brought to the priest. The movement from outside the camp back toward the community is the direction of chapter 14. The person who was isolated outside the camp is now being brought — the community reaching out to receive back what was excluded. The priest who declared unclean at the beginning of the isolation now presides over the restoration.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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