Leviticus 13:8

8 The priest will examine you again, and if it has spread, he shall pronounce you unclean; it is a dreaded skin disease.

Leviticus 13:8 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 13:8

And [if] the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in
the skin
Is not at a stay, as when he looked at it a second and third time:

then the priest shall pronounce him unclean;
a leprous person; to be absolutely so, as Jarchi expresses it; and so obliged to the birds (to bring birds for his cleansing), and to shaving, and to the offering spoken of in this section, as the same writer observes:

it [is] a leprosy:
it is a clear and plain case that it was one, and no doubt is to be made of it, it is a spreading leprosy: as sin is; it spreads itself over all the powers and faculties of the soul, and over all the members of the body; and it spreads more and more in every stage of life, unless and until grace puts a stop to it.

Leviticus 13:8 In-Context

6 The priest shall examine you again on the seventh day, and if the sore has faded and has not spread, he shall pronounce you ritually clean; it is only a sore. You shall wash your clothes and be ritually clean.

7 But if the sore spreads after the priest has examined you and pronounced you clean, you must appear before the priest again.

8 The priest will examine you again, and if it has spread, he shall pronounce you unclean; it is a dreaded skin disease.

9 If any of you have a dreaded skin disease, you shall be brought to the priest,

10 who will examine you. If there is a white sore on your skin which turns the hairs white and is full of pus,