43. The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white, like the appearance of a skin disease on his body,
44. the man is afflicted with a skin disease; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; the infection is on his head.
45. “The person afflicted with an infectious skin disease is to have his clothes torn and his hair hanging loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean! ’
46. He will remain unclean as long as he has the infection; he is unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
47. “If a fabric is contaminated with mildew — in wool or linen fabric,
48. in the warp or woof of linen or wool, or in leather or anything made of leather —
49. and if the contamination is green or red in the fabric, the leather, the warp, the woof, or any leather article, it is a mildew contamination and is to be shown to the priest.
50. The priest is to examine the contamination and quarantine the contaminated fabric for seven days.
51. The priest is to reexamine the contamination on the seventh day. If it has spread in the fabric, the warp, the woof, or the leather, regardless of how it is used, the contamination is harmful mildew; it is unclean.
52. He is to burn the fabric, the warp or woof in wool or linen, or any leather article, which is contaminated. Since it is harmful mildew it must be burned up.
53. “When the priest examines it, if the contamination has not spread in the fabric, the warp or woof, or any leather article,
54. the priest is to order whatever is contaminated to be washed and quarantined for another seven days.
55. After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine the contamination. If the appearance of the contaminated article has not changed, it is unclean. Even though the contamination has not spread, you must burn up the fabric. It is a fungus on the front or back of the fabric.
56. “If the priest examines it, and the contamination has faded after it has been washed, he must cut the contaminated section out of the fabric, the leather, or the warp or woof.