Mishnayos Negaim Perek 6 Mishnah 8

שאינן מיטמאין בבהרת – in the four appearances of plagues, שאת/swelling and its subcategories/derivatives, בהרת/the bright white spot on the skin and its subcategories/derivatives.

תוך העין תוך האוזן – that all of these are not considered like the skin of the body, as Scripture states (Leviticus 13:2): "והיה בעור-בשרו"/ “on the skin of his body.”

הקמטין (the wrinkles) – that are in the rest of the body.

והקמטין שבצואר (the wrinkles/folds that are on the neck) – the Mishnah teaches the concluding clause to reveal that the wrinkles/folds of the first clause are the folds/wrinkles of the rest of the body , that doesn’t state the wrinkles of the neck especially, that don’t appear as other.

תחת הדד – when it appears like she is nursing her child, what it doesn’t appear at that time does not defile.

ובית השחי (the arm-pit) – when it appears like he is harvesting olives.

כף הרגל (the sole of the foot) – what is underneath [the bottom] of the foot. And all of these are not the skin of the body that appears.

והצפורן – it is not considered the skin of the body.

הראש והזקן – are not defiled through the bright white spot on the skin/בהרת, as it is written (Leviticus 13:30): “it is a scall, a scaly eruption in the hair or beard,” the head nor the beard have defilement other than the defilement of the bald (blanched) spots on the head or in the beard/נתקין.

השחין והמכוה והקדח המורדים (the boils and the burning and the blisters/inflammation that are festering – not covered by a scab – running wounds from contusions, burns or inflammation -Jastrow) – that had not healed properly, and a cover/crust did not form over their skin like the husk of garlic.

אין מיטמאין משום נגע – that regarding boils it is written (Leviticus 13:18): “When an inflammation ]appears on the skin of one’s body[ and it heals”/["ובשר כי-יהיה בו-בערו] שחין ונרפא", and with regard to burning it is also written (Leviticus 13:24): “[When the skin of one’s body sustains a burn by fire,] and the patch from the burn is a discoloration.”/"[או בשר כי-יהיה בערו מכות-אש] והיתה מחית המכוה".

קדח (blister, inflammation) – it is a boil that comes on account of something else, as for example, on account of being struck b a stone or wood or peat or plaster/lime, and the burning also does not come on account of the fire itself, but on account of the derivatives/subcategories of fire, such as hot ashes/embers and hot plastering material, all of these are called blisters. It is the language of (Isaiah 64:1): “As when fire kindles brushwood/כקדח אש המסים”, and the running wounds not covered by a scab also, that did not heal, and did not raise up a scab like the husk of garlic, does not defile because of the plague.

המורדים – all the time that it didn’t heal that it didn’t raise up a scab is called, "מורדים"/wounds that are festering, meaning to say, that they still stand in their rebellion. But there are those who have the reading "מוררים"/bitter, afflicting with two [letters] "ר". It is the language of (Leviticus 15:3): “[The impurity from his discharge shall mean the following -] whether his member runs with the discharge”/"רר בשרו".

ואין מצטרפין בנגעים – there was a half split bean plague in the skin of his flesh or a half split bean plague in one of these places, they do not combine to make a [Cilician] bean.

ואין הנגע פושה לתוכן (and the plague does not spread into them) – for since hey don’t become defiled at the starting point of leprosy, they don’t also become defiled through spreading.

ואינן מיטמאין משום מחיה – that if blossomed/spread throughout, and there is at his head or on the sole of his foot or in the folds of his living flesh, they don’t become defiled because of quick flesh. Alternatively, if one of these places was surrounded within the plague, it doesn’t become defiled through quick flesh.

ואינם מעכבים את ההופך כולו לבן (and they don’t hinder [the cleanness of] the one who turns entirely white)- if the leprosy sprouted throughout all [of the body] except for one of these places, they don’t hinder [the cleanness] a, as it is written (Leviticus 13:12): “[If the eruption spreads out over the skin] so that it covers all the skin of the affected person [from head to foot]/"וכסתה הצרעת את כל-עור הנגע [מראשו ועד-רגליו]", excluding to those that do not defile because of the plague.

חזר הראש והזקן ונקרחו (the head and the beard changed and became bald) – that the hair that on them became bald and became like the skin of the body. And similarly, the boil and the quick flesh and the blister/inflammation that became a scar, that healed and a scab of flesh formed on them like the husk of garlic.

הרי אלו מיטמאין בנגעים – with the four appearances (see Tractate Negaim, Chapter 1, Mishnah 1 and following). And the same law applies that he is able to teach that the wrinkles spread, also become defiled through plagues.

ואין מצטרפין בנגעים – head and beard do not combine. And similarly, the skin of the body and the beard, or the skin of the body and the head, do not combine. For if one-half of a split bean bald/blanched spots of the beard and half of a split bean in the skin of the body, do not combine. And similarly one-half of a split bean of boils and one-half of a split bean of the burns on the skin do not combine to become a full bean.

ואין הנגע פושה לתוכן – a plague of the skin of the flesh does not spread neither in the bald/blanched spots of the head and not in the bald, blanched spots of the beard, nor in the boils nor in the burnt spots, for they are not considered like the skin of the body.

ואין מיטמאין משום מחיה – that bald, blanched spots become defiled in yellow hair and spreading, and boils and burning in the white hair and spreading.

אבל מעכבין את ההופך כולו לבן (but they do hinder [the cleanness of] one who turns wholly white) – that if the leprosy sprouted in all of him but the head or the beard that were made bald remained that the leprosy did not sprout in them, or the boils and burning and the baldness that became scarred, is impure until it (i.e., the leprosy) blossoms throughout.

הראש והזקן שלא העלו שער – as for example a minor whose beard has not grown or the hair of his head, are judged like skin of the flesh to become defiled through a bright white spot in the skin. And similarly, the warts with a thin neck that are in the head or on the beard [of a person] that doesn’t have hair, are judged like the skin of the flesh, and they hinder the blossoming, and the plague spreads within them and combines to make a split [Cilician] bean.