32. On the seventh day the priest must look at the sore. It may not have spread. There may be no yellow hairs growing in it. And the sore may not seem deeper than the skin.
33. If these things are true, the person must shave himself. But he must not shave the sore place. The priest must separate that person from other people for seven more days.
34. On the seventh day the priest must look at the sore. The sore may not have spread on the skin. And it may not seem deeper than the skin. If that is true, the priest must announce that the person is clean. So the person must wash his clothes and become clean.
35. But the sore might spread on the skin after the person has become clean.
36. Then the priest must look at him again. If the sore has spread on the skin, the priest doesn’t need to look for the yellowish hair. The person is unclean.
37. But the priest might think the sore has stopped spreading. And black hair may be growing in it. Then the sore has healed. The person is clean. And the priest must announce that he is clean.
38. “When a person has white spots on his skin,
39. a priest must look at them. If the spots on his skin are dull white, the disease is only a harmless rash. That person is clean.
40. “A man might lose hair from his head and be bald. He is clean.
41. He might lose hair from the front of his head and have a bald forehead. He is clean.
42. But if there is a red-white sore on his scalp, it is a skin disease.
43. A priest must look at that person. The swelling of the sore might be red-white. It might look like a skin disease that spreads.
44. Then that person has a skin disease. He is unclean. And the priest must announce that the person is unclean because of the sore on his head.
45. “If a person has a skin disease that spreads, he must warn other people. He must shout, ‘Unclean, unclean!’ His clothes must be torn at the seams. He must let his hair stay uncombed. And he must cover his mouth.