And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
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Interpretation
The plague of leprosy was an uncleanness, rather than a disease. Christ is said to cleanse lepers, not to cure them.