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At the camp boundary, a priest re-examines a faint unchanged spot on a clothed man's forearm after two patient seven-day observation periods, symbolized by two rows of exactly seven small pebbles beside the shelter. The faded spot has not spread; clean garments wash in a basin nearby. Exactly fourteen pebbles, no labels, prison bars, guards, severe lesions, blood, stigma, or modern clinic.
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Leviticus 13:4-6

Two periods of careful observation

Examining Skin and Garments · Leviticus 13

Story guide: At the camp boundary, a priest re-examines a faint unchanged spot on a clothed man's forearm after two patient seven-day observation periods, symbolized by two rows of exactly seven small pebbles beside the shelter. The faded spot has not spread; clean garments wash in a basin nearby. Exactly fourteen pebbles, no labels, prison bars, guards, severe lesions, blood, stigma, or modern clinic.

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4But if the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall isolate the affected area for seven days.

5And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and behold, if the spot has remained unchanged in his sight and the spot has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall isolate him for seven days a second time.

6Then the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the infection has faded and the infection has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a scaly eruption. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.

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