Extra Credit · Parallel Chazal
English: When a man or woman has bright spots, white bright spots, on the skin of their flesh,
Chabad.org — Rashi for Vayikra 13:38
Rashi on Vayikra 13:38–39; compare Mishnah Nega’im 1:1
Sefaria — Mishnah Nega'im, chapter 1
Sefaria — Rashi on Vayikra 13:38
English: White spots ... dim white spots on the skin: it is bohak, a pigmentation condition that has appeared in the skin; the person is clean.
The next verse distinguishes dim white spots from the bright shades that define the relevant tzara’at signs. The text therefore does not treat every visible white spot as an impure lesion.