10. The priest must look at him. There might be a white swelling in the skin. And the hair may have become white. And the skin may look raw in the swelling.
11. If these things are true, it is a harmful skin disease. It is one that he has had for a long time. The priest must announce that the person is unclean. He will not need to separate that person from other people. This is because everyone already knows that the person is unclean.
12. “Sometimes skin disease spreads all over a person’s body. The disease covers that person’s skin from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see. Then the priest must look at the person’s whole body.
13. The priest might see that the disease covers the whole body. It might have turned all of the person’s skin white. Then the priest must announce that the person is clean.
14. “But when the person has an open sore, he is not clean.
15. When the priest sees the open sore, he must announce that the person is unclean. The open sore is not clean. It is a harmful skin disease.
16. If the open sore becomes white again, the person must come to the priest.
17. The priest must look at him. If the sores have become white, the priest must announce that the person with the sores is clean. Then he will be clean.
18. “Someone may have a boil on his skin, but it is healed.
19. In the place where the boil was, there might be a white swelling. Or there might be a bright red spot. This place on the skin must be shown to the priest.