Leviticus 13:25-30
29 If a man or a woman has a lesion on the head or on the beard: As was noted above, the eruption of tzara’at on the head is caused by haughtiness, as opposed to tzara’at elsewhere on the body, which is the result of gossip or slander. The reason for this difference is that gossip and slander are superficial misdeeds, as explained above, which therefore affect the skin elsewhere on the body, whereas haughtiness is a warped mental attitude, which therefore affects the head.
30 The priest must examine the lesion. If, however, a lesion occurs on a part of the head where no hair normally grows (e.g., a woman’s chin) or where hair will normally grow but has not yet grown (e.g., a boy’s chin), it is diagnosed according to the rules governing lesions appearing on the rest of the body, which were discussed previously.
If, regardless of whether its appearance is deeper or not deeper than that of the skin, there are at least two hairs inside it that are thin—i.e., shorter than the other hairs—and have turned from their natural color into pale gold, the priest must pronounce him defiled, for it is a netek, which is the name of tzara’at of the head or the beard. If there is only one (or no) gold hair within the lesion, or if the gold hair is as long as the rest of the hair, or if within the lesion there are at least two naturally colored hairs remaining from before the lesion appeared (even if there are now also two or more gold hairs within the lesion), the person is not defiled.
