Negaim 9:2 - 9:3

אין מצטרפין – one-half a split [Cilician] bean of boils with one-half a split [Cilician] bean of burning do not combine [to make] a complete split [Cilician] bean.

ואין פושין מזה וזה – that if a boil and a burning are one next to the other, and in one of them is a bright white spot on the skin the size of a split [Cilician] bean, and he was shut up/isolated/quarantined, and at the end of the week, it spread to its neighbor or on the skin of the flesh, we don’t declare him a certified leper. And similarly, if the bright white spot was on the skin of the flesh and spread to the boil or to the burn, it is not considered spreading.

היו מורדין – that they didn’t heal properly and the skin did not have a scab on it, and it still produces secretion, we don’t defile it through plagues, as it is written (Leviticus 13:18): “When an inflammation (i.e., boil) appears on the skin of one’s body and it heals.,” but with a burning, it is written (Leviticus 13:24): "והיתה מחית המכוה"/ “and the patch from the burn is a dis-coloration, [either white streaked with rea, or white.]”

אע"פ שנעשה מקומו צלקת (even though spot became the rough, scabby surface/scar) – that it is recognized that there was a boil there or a burn and it is not equivalent to the rest of the skin of the flesh, nevertheless it is judged like the skin of the flesh, for after it became a strong scab.

אמרו לו למה – [why] should he be shut up/put in quarantine/isolated, but it is impossible for him to give rise to a sign/token of impurity?

לגדל שער אין ראויה – for the palm of the hand one never grows hair ever.

לפשיון אינה פושה – for boils and burning do not spread on the skin of the flesh (as we saw in the previous Mishnah).

ולמחיה אינה מטמא – for it is taught in the Mishnah (see Mishnah 1 of this chapter) that with two signs/tokens – with white hair and spreading but not with quick flesh.

שמא תכנוס (perhaps it will contract) – like a split [Cilician] bean, and when the Kohen will see it at the end of the week he will release him, but after the release, it will return and spread within the boil whose place is like a Sela and he will declare him to be a certified leper.

אמרו לו הרי מקומה כגריס – meaning to say, that if it the place of the scar/shriveled surface was like a split [Cilician] bean alone and the bright white spot on the skin was in it, why would he (i.e., the Kohen) isolate/quarantine him, but does it not belong to state here that perhaps it will contract and then spread?

אמר להן לא שמעתי – meaning to say that he (i.e., the Kohen) should also shut him up/isolate him/quarantine him, but I did not hear the reason regarding it.

אלמד בו – permit me that I will teach a thing regarding this law.

אם לקיים דברי חכמים הן – if you find a reason to uphold the words of the Sages that stated that it requires isolation/quarantine, say it, but to teach that it doesn’t require isolation/quarantine, do not say it, for I do not set aside what I received from my Rabbis and listen from you.

שמא יוולד לו שחין אחר חוצה לו ויפשה לתוכו – that boils spread into boils. And this is the Halakha.