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.
20. And the priest must look at it. The spot might seem deeper than the skin. And the hair on it might have become white. If these things are true, the priest must announce that the person is unclean. The spot is a harmful skin disease. It has broken out from inside the boil.
21. But the priest must look at the spot. There might be no white hairs in it. The spot may not be deeper than the skin. And it may have faded. Then the priest must separate the person from other people for seven days.
22. If the spot spreads on the skin, the priest must announce that the person is unclean. It is a disease that will spread.
23. But the bright spot might not spread or change. Then it is only the scar from the old boil. Then the priest must announce that the person is clean.
24. “A person might get a burn on his skin. If the open sore becomes white or red,
25. the priest must look at it. The white spot might seem deeper than the skin. And the hair at that spot might have become white. If these things are true, it is a harmful skin disease. The disease has broken out in the burn. Then the priest must announce that the person is unclean. It is a harmful skin disease.
26. But the priest must look at the spot. There might be no white hair in the bright spot. And the spot may be no deeper than the skin. It may have faded. Then the priest must separate the person from other people for seven days.
27. On the seventh day the priest must look at him again. If the spot has spread on the skin, the priest must announce that the person is unclean. It is a harmful skin disease.
28. But the bright spot may not have spread on the skin. It may have faded. Then it is the swelling from the burn. And the priest must announce that the person is clean. The spot is only a scar from the burn.
29. “Someone might get a sore on his scalp or on his chin.