Leviticus 13:24
Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white; Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
The verse belongs to the laws in Leviticus 12-15 regulating uncleanness and cleansing, specifically the instructions for identifying leprosy in the skin. It describes flesh with a hot burning in the skin where the quick flesh that burns has a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white. Beyond placing the verse in the laws concerning leprosy, its specific diagnostic details are left without further explanation.
The chapter gives sanitary instructions and directions concerning leprosy and contagious disease, including precautions for protecting the people's health. Visible physical uncleanness had to be removed before the object could undergo its real cleansing with blood, so the verse illustrates the distinction between physical uncleanness and the moral defilement for which the sanctuary was cleansed.
Leprosy, a horrible and terrible moral disease, is a fitting type and figure of sin. Like the bodily plague, the moral disease of sin is widespread, incurable by human means, infectious, destructive, and rooted within, polluting a person's life as well as bringing outward shame.
The verse shows leprosy in its utmost loathsomeness as a type of mortal sin, still prevalent in the Holy Land in the same form as in scriptural days and so bearing witness to scriptural truth, and made by Jesus Christ a proof of his power to heal. The verse is included among the laws given to ancient Israel in Leviticus 11-15 presented as cleansing instruction, connected to health reform and the preparation of clean vessels for God's Spirit.
The verse is part of the laws of sanitation promulgated by Moses, which still stand at the head of all sanitary law, and their surpassing wisdom is conclusive evidence of the divine inspiration that guided Moses. The value of observing such sanitary law is shown by what was accomplished in the Panama Canal Zone under Colonel Gorgas, where sanitary laws well understood by up-to-date physicians were rigidly enforced with marked results. August 1913, the high tide of American occupancy, passed without a single death from disease in the American colony, with only two Americans killed by accident, although it had once been thought impossible for any but natives to live there any length of time.