Some translators may prefer to restructure the beginning of this verse by saying “Seven days later, the priest must reexamine the object.” It may also be necessary to leave implicit the list of different kinds of objects that is repeated from the previous verses. Compare Good News Translation.

Whatever be the use of the skin: this parenthetical information is intended to make it clear that such skin would have to be pronounced unclean regardless of the purpose for which the skin had been previously used. In some cases one may prefer to put this in parentheses. Good News Translation has simply left it implicit, but it may be better to make it explicit in the receptor language.

A malignant leprosy: this seems to mean a persistent type of mildew. It may be translated “an incurable condition,” “a destructive mildew” (New International Version), or “a rotting mould” (New English Bible).

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 .