Halakhah for Megillah 16:12
ה"נ טהור [השתא מלטמא בביאה למפרע]
So too here, [the meaning is that] the metzora is clean now to the extent of not defiling retrospectively by his entrance.
Sefer HaChinukh
From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Megillah 8b), "There is no difference between a quarantined metsorah and a definitive metsorah except renting and wildness, [...] shaving and [offering] birds" - meaning to say that the quarantined one does not become wild and rent. And the explanation of becoming wild is the growing of hair; and of rending is that he tears his clothes. And the one who is pure [after] the quarantine is exempt from shaving and birds, but the one who is pure [after being] definitive is obligated about shaving and birds. But the impurity of both of them is the same in everything. And the matters of their impurity and how it is; whether they are prohibited in inquiring about [others'] welfare; whether they are permitted to study [Torah] while they are still in their impurity; whether they are forbidden to get a haircut and to wash clothing; whether they are permitted in bathing, anointing, the wearing of shoes and sexual relations; the law of a metsoraat (a woman that contacts tsaraat), how is her law and her practice; and the rest of its details are elucidated in Negaim (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of Defilement by Leprosy 10).
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