John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 13:44
He is a leprous man, he is unclean ,.... And so to be pronounced and accounted; only a leprous man is mentioned, there being no leprous women, having this sort of leprosy, their hair not falling off, or they becoming bald, usually; unless, as Ben Gersom observes, in a manner strange and wonderful: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean ; as in any other case of leprosy: his plague is in his head ; an emblem of such who have imbibed bad notions and erroneous principles,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 13:38-46
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 (2 Kgs. 2:23); but it was the children of Bethel, that knew not the judgments of their God, who turned it to his reproach. II. A particular brand set upon the leprosy if at any time it did appear in a bald head: The plague is in his head, he is utterly unclean, Lev. 13:44.... read more