Halakhah for Megillah 16:15
וכי תימא הכי נמי והא קתני אין בין מצורע מוסגר למצורע מוחלט אלא פריעה ופרימה הא לענין שילוח ולטמויי בביאה זה וזה שוין
And should you reply that that is so, [how can this be] seeing that it states, There is no difference between a metzora who is under observation and one declared to be a definite metzora except the disheveling of hair and tearing the clothes., from which it may be inferred that in the matter of being sent out [of the camp] and defiling by entrance they are on the same footing?
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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