In the skin — For there is the first seat of the leprosy, the bright spot shining like the scale of a fish, as it is in the beginning of a leprosy. The priest — The priest was to admit to, or exclude from, the sanctuary, and therefore to examine who were to be excluded.
Related Commentaries of Leviticus 13:2
Leviticus 13:2
2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising,a a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: