Negaim 6:5 - 6:6

בהרת כגריס – squared and a strip of living flesh in the width of like a lentil surrounding it from around, and except for that living flesh that surrounds the bright white spot on the skin like a split Cilician bean from around. For here there are two bright white spots on the skin, one inner and one outer, and the quick flesh interrupts between them all around.

הפנימית להסגיר – for there is no quick flesh in its middle.

והחיצונה להחליט – for the quick flesh that surrounds the inner [bright white spot on the skin] is a sign/token of defilement for the outer [bright white spot on the skin] for it is surrounded in its middle.

שהבהרת בתוכה – because the bright white spot on the skin is within it, it is not considered a sign/token of defilement to the outer [bright white spot on the skin], since we require it being surrounded, a plague from here and a plague from there with quick flesh in the middle [without an interruption of something else within the quick flesh), but here, there is a plague and quick flesh and a plague and quick flesh and a plague. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.

נתמעטה המחיה – that the bright white spot on the skin spread upon it.

והלכה לה – or it went away/disappeared completely.

אם מבפנים היא כלתה – that the bright white spot on the skin covered the quick flesh.

סימן פשיון לפנימית – and it is declared definitive leprosy, for it spread from the outside.

והחיצונה טהורה – that its quick flesh diminished or went away, and there is no spreading for the plague does not spread within it.

והפנימית להסגיר – for the plague remained unchanged.

בין כך ובין כך – whether it ceased/went away from the inside or whether it ceased/disappeared from the outside.

טהור – that just as if it the outer part [of the bright white spot on the skin] had spread to the quick flesh that is within it, this is not spreading, so when the inner [bright white spot on the skin] spreads to the quick flesh that is within the outer bright white spot on the skin, it is not spreading. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Akiba.

אימתי – the outer [bright white spot on the skin] is pure when the inner [bright white spot on the skin] or the outer [bright white spot on the skin] has spread on the quick flesh, for we stated above that the outer [bright white spot on the skin] is pure (see the previous Mishnah), these words apply when it is exactly the size of a lentil, that the quick flesh is like an exactly defined lentil, not less and not more. But if the quick flesh is greater [in size] than that of a lentil, [the excess is a token/sign of spreading for the inner one (i.e., the bright white spot on the skin) and the outer one (i.e., the bright white spot on the skin) is unclean].

המותר סימן פסיון לפנימית והחיצונה טמאה – that is to say, if the inner [bright white spot on the skin] spread over that excess, both of them are to be declared to be definitive leprosy. The inner one because of the spreading and the outer one because of the quick flesh. But if the outer one (i.e., the bright white spot on the skin) spread over that excess, nevertheless, the outer one is to be declared definitive leprosy because of the quick flesh and the inner one is to [cause] to be shut up/isolated. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Shimon.

היה בוהק פחות מכעדשה (if the white scurf/tetter was less than a lentil) – near the inner [bright white spot on the skin], and the outer [bright white spot on the skin] surrounds the white scurf/tetter.

סימן פשיון לפנימית – if the inner [bright white spot on the skin] spread and covered the white scurf/tetter, the inner [bright white spot on the skin] is to be declared a definitive leprosy , for it has spread from the outside. But if the outer [bright white spot on the skin] spread and covered the white scurf/tetter, it is not a sign/token of spreading for the outer [bright white spot on the skin] for the plague does not spread within. And that it (i.e., the Mishnah) used the phrase: "היה בוהק פחות מכעדשה"/it was a white scurf/tetter less than a lentil -, for if it was like a lentil, it would defile because of the quick flesh for we hold that quick flesh defiles in all of the appearances [of plagues], but less than a lentil, there is no quick flesh, for there is no quick flesh that is less than a lentil.