Related%20passage for Moed Katan 30:17

קיל והאמרת חמיר ספוקי מספקא ליה ומדחי ליה

What about a leper, may he send his [sacrificial] offerings? - Come and hear: And after he [a defied priest] is cleansed<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. XLIV, 26.');">²⁷</span> - [that is, cleansed]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. verse 25; about the ritual sprinkling after being defiled by the dead (before one may enter the sanctuary) , Num. XIX, 11-13; 19-20.');">²⁸</span> after coming away from his dead near of kin - they shall reckon unto him seven days<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The (above) ritual sprinkling from defilement by contact with the dead was done on the third and seventh days after having separated from the corpse; but the use of the phrase 'they shall reckon seven days' instead of 'they shall sprinkle upon him' is taken to be reminiscent of the seven days for a leper on his recovery and his preliminary ritual cleansing, before leaving his place of Isolation (Lev. XI V, 1-8) , which were followed by another seven days of ritual purification before he may proceed on the eighth day with his final purification and atonement. (Ibid. 8-11) . Accordingly, the case of a leprous priest is read into the text of Ezekiel. For obviously it would be useless to cleanse a leprous priest (or layman) from his defilement by the dead while still being unclean as a leper, and as such unfit to enter the camp or sanctuary.');">²⁹</span>

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