4. “Sometimes there is a white spot on a person’s skin, but the spot does not seem deeper than the skin. If that is true, and if the hair from the spot has not turned white, the priest must separate that person from other people for seven days.
5. On the seventh day the priest must look at the person again. He may see that the sore has not changed. It might not have spread on the skin. Then the priest must keep the person separated for seven more days.
6. On the seventh day the priest must look at the person again. The sore may have faded. And it may not have spread on the skin. If that is true, the priest must announce that the person is clean. The sore is only a rash. The person must wash his clothes. Then he will become clean again.
7. “But the sore may have spread again after the priest has announced him clean. Then the person must come again to the priest.
8. The priest must look at him. If the rash has spread on the skin, the priest must announce that person is unclean. It is a harmful skin disease.
9. “If a person has a harmful skin disease, he must be brought to the priest.
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.