Leviticus 13:39

39 a priest must look at them. If the spots on the skin are dull white, the disease is only a harmless rash. That person is clean.

Leviticus 13:39 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 13:39

Then the priest shall look
Upon the man or woman that has these spots, and upon the spots themselves, and examine them of what kind they are: and, behold, [if] the bright spots in the skin of their flesh [be]
darkish white;
their whiteness is not strong, as Jarchi observes; but dusky and obscure, or "contracted" ^F23; small white spots, not large and spreading: it [is] a freckled spot [that] grows in the skin;
a kind of morphew, which the above writer describes as a sort of whiteness which appears in the flesh of a ruddy man: he [is] clean;
from leprosy; this is observed, lest a person that is freckled and has a morphew should be mistaken for a leprous person; as every man that has some spots, failings, and infirmities, is not to be reckoned a wicked man.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (twhk) "costractae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Leviticus 13:39 In-Context

37 But if the priest thinks the sore has stopped spreading, and black hair is growing in it, the sore has healed. The person is clean, and the priest must announce that he is clean.

38 "When a man or a woman has white spots on the skin,

39 a priest must look at them. If the spots on the skin are dull white, the disease is only a harmless rash. That person is clean.

40 "When anyone loses hair from his head and is bald, he is clean.

41 If he loses hair from the front of his head and has a bald forehead, he is clean.