Leviticus 13:44

44 that person has a skin disease. He is unclean. The priest must announce that the person is unclean because of the sore on his head.

Leviticus 13:44 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 13:44

He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean
And so to be pronounced and accounted; only a leprous man is mentioned, there being no leprous women, having this sort of leprosy, their hair not falling off, or they becoming bald, usually; unless, as Ben Gersom observes, in a manner strange and wonderful:

the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean;
as in any other case of leprosy:

his plague [is] in his head;
an emblem of such who have imbibed bad notions and erroneous principles, and are therefore, like the leper, to be avoided and rejected from the communion of the saints, ( Titus 3:10 ) ; and shows that men are accountable for their principles as well as practices, and liable to be punished for them.

Leviticus 13:44 In-Context

42 But if there is a red-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a skin disease breaking out in those places.

43 A priest must look at that person. If the swelling of the sore on his bald head or forehead is red-white, like a skin disease that spreads,

44 that person has a skin disease. He is unclean. The priest must announce that the person is unclean because of the sore on his head.

45 "If a person has a skin disease that spreads, he must warn other people by shouting, 'Unclean, unclean!' His clothes must be torn at the seams, he must let his hair stay uncombed, and he must cover his mouth.

46 That person will be unclean the whole time he has the disease; he is unclean. He must live alone outside the camp.