John Gill Commentary Leviticus 13:39

"then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be of a dull white, it is a tetter, it hath broken out in the skin; he is clean." — Leviticus 13:39 (ASV)

Then the priest shall look
Upon the man or woman that has these spots, and upon the spots themselves, and examine them of what kind they are: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh are
darkish white.

Their whiteness is not strong, as Jarchi observes; but dusky and obscure, or "contracted" ^F23; small white spots, not large and spreading: it is a freckled spot that grows in the skin.

A kind of morphew, which the above writer describes as a sort of whiteness which appears in the flesh of a ruddy man: he is clean from leprosy; this is observed, lest a person that is freckled and has a morphew should be mistaken for a leprous person; as every man that has some spots, failings, and infirmities, is not to be reckoned a wicked man.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F23: (twhk) "costractae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.