The procedures described in this chapter are not curative but ceremonial. In other words, the priest did not actually do anything to cure the sick person. Their duty was to diagnose when a man was unclean and when he was clean again, and to make sure that the correct rituals were carried out when the disease cleared up and the man was readmitted to the community.
2 “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,