And if a man’s hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.
We have here, I. Provisos that neither a freckled skin nor a bald head should be mistaken for a leprosy, Lev 13:38-41. Every deformity must not forthwith be made a ceremonial defilement. Elisha was jeered for his bald head (Kg2 2:23); but it was the children of Bethel, that knew not the judgments of their God, who turned it to his reproach. II.
Commenting on Leviticus 13:38-46
Then the priest shall look upon it,.... The white reddish sore: and, behold, if the rising of the sore; or the swelling of it: be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead; See Gill on Lev 13:42, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh; as in Lev 13:2; having the signs of the leprosy there given; anyone of...
And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he [is] forehead bald: [yet is] he clean. (l) By sickness or any other inconvenience.