Leviticus 13:6
6The priest must then examine it again on the seventh day, ▼ and if ▼▼ Heb “and behold.”
the infection has faded and has not spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person clean. ▼▼ 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, ▼ so he must wash his clothes ▼▼ Heb “and he shall wash his clothes.”
and be clean.
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