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Regulations About Skin Diseases
The Lord told Moses and Aaron to say to the people (v. 1): If a skin rash should break out and start spreading you must be brought to Aaron or to one of the other priests (v. 2). If the priest discovers that the hair in the infected area has turned white, he will say, “This …

The Difficulty of Having an Infectious Skin Disease
If you have a burn that gets infected and turns red or reddish-white, a priest must examine it (v. 24). Then if he discovers that the hair in the infected area has turned white and that the infection seems more than skin deep, he will say, “The burn has turned into leprosy, …

The Diagnosis of Leprosy.
Leprosy is a big item in this chapter. Concerning this plague we may observe that it is considered more of an uncleanness than of a disease and therefore was not so much a problem for physicians as it was for the priests. It was a plague inflicted by the hand of God and did not c …