If the bright spot be white. — But if upon inspection there merely appeared a white spot in the skin, and the above named two symptoms were absent, the case was not to be decided.
Then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague. — The individual thus suspected was to be separated from the rest of the community for seven days, during which time it would be seen whether it actually developed itself into this disorder. According to the canons which obtained during the second Temple, if a bridegroom was seized with this distemper he could not be shut up during the nuptial week. It will be seen that the words “him that hath” are in italics, thus indicating that they are not in the text; but “plague” here, as we have seen in Leviticus 13:3, denotes plagued person.