Lev 13:6 | NET2full | STEP | The priest must then examine it again on the seventh day , and if the infection has faded and has not spread on the skin , then the priest is to pronounce the person clean . It is a scab , so he must wash his clothes and be clean .

‏ Leviticus 13:6

6 The priest must then examine it again on the seventh day, ^{▼▼tn That is, at the end of the second set of seven days referred to at the end of v. 5, a total of fourteen days after the first appearance before the priest.} and if ^{▼▼tn Heb “and behold.”} the infection has faded and has not spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person clean. ^{▼▼tn Heb “he shall make him clean.” The verb is the Piel of טָהֵר (taher, “to be clean”). Here it is a so-called “declarative” Piel (i.e., “to declare clean”), but it also implies that the person is put into the category of being “clean” by the pronouncement itself (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 176; cf. the corresponding opposite in v. 3 above).} It is a scab, ^{▼▼tn On the term “scab” see the note on v. 2 above. Cf. NAB “it was merely eczema”; NRSV “only an eruption”; NLT “only a temporary rash.”} so he must wash his clothes ^{▼▼tn Heb “and he shall wash his clothes.”} and be clean.