Compare this verse with verse 3.

Broken out in: or “spread from.” See verses 12 and 20.

In the burn: in some languages it may be more natural to say “in the place where he had been burned” or “in the place where the fire touched.”

It is a leprous disease: the repetition of this information a second time in the same verse is judged unnecessary in Good News Translation, and this will also be the case in many other languages.

Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .