Leviticus 13:51

51 On the seventh day the priest must inspect it again. If the contaminated area has spread, the clothing or fabric or leather is clearly contaminated by a serious mildew and is ceremonially unclean.

Leviticus 13:51 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 13:51

And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day
To see whether there is any alteration in it in that space of time:

if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the
woof, or in a skin, [or] in any work that is made of skin;
the green and red spot be spread more and more in either of them, whether the colour remains the same or not, be changed, the green into red, or the red into green, yet if there was a spreading, it was a sign of leprosy. According to the Jewish canon ^F19, if the plague was green and spread red, or red and spread green, it was unclean; that is, as Bartenora ^F20 explains it, if it was red in the size of a bean, and at the end of the week the red had spread itself to green; or if at the beginning it was green like a bean, and at the end of the week had spread itself to the size of a shekel, and the root or spread of it was become red;

the plague [is] a fretting leprosy;
according to Jarchi, a sharp and pricking one, like a thorn; which signification the word has in ( Ezekiel 28:24 ) . Ben Gersom explains it, which brings a curse, corruption, and oldness into the thing in which it is; an old "irritated, exasperated" leprosy, as Bochart ^F21, from the use of the word in the Arabic tongue, translates it:

it [is] unclean;
and the garment or thing in which it is.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Misn. Negaim, c. 11. sect. 3, 4.
F20 In ib.
F21 Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 45. col. 493.

Leviticus 13:51 In-Context

49 If the contaminated area in the clothing, the animal hide, the fabric, or the leather article has turned greenish or reddish, it is contaminated with mildew and must be shown to the priest.

50 After examining the affected spot, the priest will put the article in quarantine for seven days.

51 On the seventh day the priest must inspect it again. If the contaminated area has spread, the clothing or fabric or leather is clearly contaminated by a serious mildew and is ceremonially unclean.

52 The priest must burn the item—the clothing, the woolen or linen fabric, or piece of leather—for it has been contaminated by a serious mildew. It must be completely destroyed by fire.

53 “But if the priest examines it and finds that the contaminated area has not spread in the clothing, the fabric, or the leather,