Skin disease
If you have a skin disease, the priest will determine whether it's a serious skin disease or a rash. If it's a rash, you're quarantined until it goes away, but if it's serious, then you're considered unclean. If you have open sores, boils, burns, or shiny white patches and they don't heal, then you're unclean. When they heal, you're declared clean again. If you're considered unclean, then you have to tear your shirt and not wash your hair. You also have to yell "Unclean! Unclean!" whenever you're near anyone so that they don't come near you. You're forced to live in isolation. :( I just found out that although very rare, 150-200 people in the US are diagnosed with leprosy every year.
If you get mold on your clothes, you also have to show it to the priest. If it spreads, then it's unclean, and the priest has to burn it. If it doesn't spread, you just have to wash it and hope it comes out completely, because if it's still faint, th priest will cut out of the fabric. Then it'll be holey again! Lol.
Can you imagine having to run around and yell "unclean unclean!"? What a nightmare it must have been!
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