Leviticus 13:37

37 But if he sees that the scab hasn't spread and black hair grows on it, the scab is healed. The person is clean, so the priest must declare him clean.

Leviticus 13:37 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 13:37

But if the scall be in his sight at a stay
If in a few days, or in a short space of time after this, it should appear that the scall is at a full stop, and does not spread any further at all: and [that] there is black hair grown up therein;
which is a sign of health and soundness, and so of purity; yea, if it was green or red, so be it, it was not yellow, according to Jarchi, it was sufficient: the scall is healed;
from whence it appears that it had been a leprous scall, but was now healed, an entire stop being put to the spread of it; and though yellow hairs might have appeared in it, yet, as Gersom observes, two black hairs having grown up in it, it was a clear case that the corruption of the blood had departed, and it had returned to its former state: he [is] clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean;
he was clean before, and is the reason why he pronounces him so; wherefore it is not the sentence of the priest, but the truth of his case that makes him clean; teaching, as Ainsworth observes, that the truth of a man's estate, discerned by the word and law of God, made the man clean or unclean, and not the sentence of the priest, if it swerved from the law.

Leviticus 13:37 In-Context

35 But if the scab spreads after the person has been declared clean,

36 the priest will make another examination. If the scab has spread on the skin, the priest does not have to look for yellow hair. The person is unclean.

37 But if he sees that the scab hasn't spread and black hair grows on it, the scab is healed. The person is clean, so the priest must declare him clean.

38 "If a man or a woman has white irritated areas of skin,

39 the priest will make an examination. If the irritated areas on the skin are pale white, a rash has developed on the skin. The person is clean.