What happensPermalink
Laws for skin diseases or infections in people and in houses. Priests are in charge of determining uncleanness based on symptoms and prescribing the remedy, which is also detailed in this chapter. The unclean person or thing is sealed off until healed.
Why it mattersPermalink
God charged Aaron and the priests to distinguish and separate the clean from the unclean (Leviticus 10); this chapter is a specific implementation of that charge.
Key versePermalink
“When a man is afflicted with a leprous disease, he shall be brought to the priest…”