הפורח מן הטמא טהור (a leprosy that blossoms after a person has been declared unclean, is clean) -an unclean person that was declared a certified leper with one of the plagues, and afterwards it blossomed throughout his body (i.e., that it all turned white), is pure.

חזרו בו ראשי אברים (the tips of the limbs reappeared with it) – if after the “blossoming”/eruption (i.e., the white eruption which causes the leper to be declared clean) even the tips of the limbs reappeared alone.

טמא – as it is written (Leviticus 13:14): “But as soon as un-discolored flesh appears in it, he shall be impure.”/"וביום הראות בו בשר חי יטמא" , and it should appear like a lentil.

עד שתתמעט בהרתו מכגריס – that he gave rise/brought forth the entire plague and nothing remains of it like the size of a split bean.

מטהור טמא – something pure that the leprosy blossomed throughout his body. As for example that he had declared him to be a certified leper with white hair or quick flesh and the white hair fell out or the quick flesh was covered, and he was released; alternatively, he (i.e., the Kohen) locked him up/isolated him with a bright white spot on the skin the size of a split [Cilician] bean but it remained unchanged for two weeks and he was released, in all of these, if after his release it blossomed throughout his body, he is impure.

עד שתחזור לכמות שהיתה – that if there remained from the blossoming whatever the amount near/adjacent to the starting point of leprosy, he is unclean because of spreading, for as it is taught in the Mishnah adjacent (see Mishnah 2 of this eighth chapter of Tractate Negaim) that if the quick flesh went away and afterwards it (i.e., the bright white spot) blossomed over all of his body, he is pure, and it is also taught in the Mishnah (i.e., see Mishnah 3 of this eighth chapter of Tractate Negaim) concerning the bright white spot on the skin/בהרת and in it is white hair which blossomed throughout his body, even though the white hair is in its place, he is pure, and it implies, that all the more so, if it (i.e., the white hair) is not in its place, he is pure, for there (i.e., Mishnah 3 of this chapter) we are speaking that the Kohen did not yet release him when it blossomed throughout his body, but here (in our Mishnah) we are speaking when he (i.e., the Kohen) released him and afterwards it blossomed throughout his body.

ואח"כ הלכה לה מחיה – that the plague spread upon it. But at the hour of the blossoming, the quick flesh did not go away until afterwards [but the quick flesh was not covered] the blossoming does not purify it.

בהרת – like the size of a split [Cilician] bean.

ובה שער לבן – surely it comes to tell us that blossoming [of the bright white spot] purifies after all of the tokens/signs of defilement.

פרחה במקצתו טמא – it is necessary to inform us that even if it blossomed through most of his body, that we don’t say, the majority is like the whole. Alternatively it informs us that at the end of the first week or at the end of the second week he is impure with blossoming over part of his body even whatever the amount because of spreading.

שבפריחתן טיהרו טמא – that through their blossoming, they have purified the defiled person. When they have reappeared and have been uncovered/revealed after that, he returns to his defilement.

שבחזירתם טמאו טהור – that through their return that they returned and were uncovered/revealed. They defiled the pure person, if they returned and were covered that the plague spread upon them, he is pure, bur if they returned and were uncovered afterwards, he is impure. And it is necessary to inform us that even many times, as it is taught [in this Mishnah], even one hundred times.

כל הראוי לטמא בנגע הבהרת (all who are susceptible to be defiled through the plague of the bright white spot) – such as the skin of the flesh.

מעכב את הפריחה (hinders the blossoming [over the entire body which marks the person as clean])- if there remained from it whatever the amount that did not blossom in it, it hinders/delays his purification.

וכל שאינו ראוי ליטמא בנגע הבהרת – as for example, the head and the beard, and all of these that are considered together with them.

אין מעכבין את הפריחה – for even though the plague did not blossom upon them, since it blossomed in the rest of the body, he is ritually pure. And the tips of the limbs are not considered for they hinder the blossoming, for they are susceptible to become defiled through the plague of the bright white spot in the skin, for the plague spreads in them.

ונעשו צרבת טהורים (and they formed a scab, they are pure) – even though that now when the head and/or the beard became bald they became susceptible to be defiled through the plague of the bright white spot on the skin, and similarly, boils and burns and the festering blister formed a scab, they are like the skin of the flesh, since at the time of the blossoming, they were not susceptible, they are not hindered and are pure.

אע"פ שנעשה מקום המחיה בהרת טמא – for the first blossoming is not blossoming, since there remains from the skin of the flesh one-half of a lentil adjacent to the head, whereas the current blossoming where the quick flesh is covered of half a lentil’s size is also not considered blossoming, since they have been made bald already and they made a scab, they are like the skin of the flesh, and it is not effective until it blossoms also upon them.

אחת טמאה – certified as a leper.

ואחת טהורה – after the release, that it remained unchanged at he end of the second week.

ופרחה מזו לזו – whether from pure to impure or whether from impure to pure.

ואח"כ פרחה בכולו טהור – because something ritually pure becomes impure when it blossomed from it to defile it, for it had spread, and when it blossomed afterwards through the entire body, it is blossoming from (the impure to the pure) [the impure, and the pure].

בשפתו העליונה ([if there were two bright spots, each the size of half of split [Cilician] bean]] one on his upper lip) – half of a split [Cilician] bean of a bright white spot on the skin, and on his upper lip, half of a split [Cilician] bean, and when he closes his mouth, it appears like a split [Cilician] bean in one place. And similarly on two fingers or on the two eye-lids with eye-lashes, and he makes them cleave together it appears like a complete [Cilician] bean.

אבל לא בבוהק (but not on the white scurf/tetter) – it appears white below from the four appearances and hinders the blossoming.

חזרו בו ראשי אברים – that were revealed from the plague and became a white scurf/tetter.

טהור – and the same law applies in the rest of the body, for even though the white scurf/tetter hinders the blossoming at the outset, it doesn’t hinder it at the end, and subsidiary to the concluding clause [of the Mishnah] that wishes to teach "ראשי אברים"/the tips of the limbs, it teaches [in the Mishnah] here, “the tips of the limbs.” But in the concluding clause, it (i.e., the Mishnah) takes the phrase, “the tips of the limbs” to inform you about the power of [the opinion of] Rabbi Meir that even at the tips of the limbs that were revealed/uncovered less than the size of a lentil, and became a white scurf/tetter, Rabbi Meir declares unclean, and all the more so in the rest of the body, but that of the first-clause [of the Mishnah] that “the tips of the limbs reappeared,” like a species of pure/clean white scurf, it is brought according to the Rabbis, but not according to Rabbi Meir. But the Rabbis who declare it pure, not exactly/specifically less than a lentil, for even more also it is ritually pure, for a white scurf/tetter at the end does not hinder. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

הבא כולו לבן – from the outset he comes completely covered with a plague.

יסגיר – like the law of a bright white spot on the skin like a split [Cilician] bean, lest it subsequently appear on him white hair or quick flesh. For the white eruption which causes the leper to be declared clean does not purify at the outset.

נולד לו שער לבן – at the end of the first week or at the end of the second week, let him be declared a certified leper. But if these tokens/signs of impurity did not appear, he should be released.

השחירו שתיהן – all of these that are considered, they are signs/tokens of purity, and they are explained above at the end of the first chapter (Mishnah 6).

נולד לו מחיה או שער לבן – if after these signs/tokens of ritual purity came, there appeared upon him quick flesh or white hair, he is impure, but if not, he is ritually pure.

וכולן שחזרו בהם ראשי אברים – He that comes entirely white at the outset, whether he needed to be shut up/placed in isolation/quarantine whether to be declared as a certified leper or whether to be released, if their tips of the limbs reappeared/were uncovered again, they are like they were and ritually pure, as we don’t consider the quick flesh. How so? A person who comes entirely white from the outset and was isolated/quarantined for two weeks and there didn’t appear on him signs/tokens of impurity, and he was released, but afterwards, the tips of the limbs were uncovered/revealed on him, that is, that the tips of the limbs returned from the release, and he is pure. But if he was declared to be a certified leper with white hair and the hair turned black, and afterwards, the tips of the limbs were uncovered/revealed, that is, the tips of the limbs were restored while being a certified leper and he is pure. But if at the end of the first week or the end of the second week, the tips of the limbs were revealed/uncovered, that is, the tips of the limbs were restored on him while in isolation/quarantine, and he is ritually pure. This is how the explanation of this Mishnah appeared from Sifra/Torat Kohanim. But Maimonides did not explain it this way.

פרחה במקצתו – in part of the tips of the limbs that were uncovered/revealed.

טמא – that behold the plague spread.

פרחה בכולו – after it had blossomed in part of it.

טהור – that he has blossoming from the impure, but if from the outset after the tips of the limbs were uncovered it blossomed throughout the entire body at one time, he is impure because of spreading. But that which the first clause [of the Mishnah] teaches that if it blossomed in part of his body, he is impure, the same law applies when it blossomed/erupted throughout the body, he is also impure, but it (i.e., the Mishnah) did not use [the phrase] "פרחה במקצתו"/that it blossomed in part of the body other than because it wanted to teach the latter "פרחה בכולו טהור"/it blossomed/erupted in all of his body that he is pure, that is, after it blossomed/erupted in part of his body.

מתוך הטהרה טמא – as for example, a person who comes completely white at the outset, and after the isolation/quarantine/being shut up or the declaration of being a certified leper he became pure, if the tips of the limbs returned on him and were uncovered, he is pure, as we explained above (i.e., in the previous Mishnah). But if during a state of cleanness/purity, they returned and became uncovered at one instant, he is impure because of spreading, and that is what it states, that if it blossomed/erupted (the white eruption which causes the leper to be declared clean) at once while in a state of purity, he becomes impure, as we explained in the Mishnah above, that if it his entire body blossomed/erupted at a single instant, he is also impure like [the case of] part of his body blossoming/erupting.

פטור מן הפריעה ומן הפרימה (he is exempt from the letting the hair grow in neglect and rending his garments – see Leviticus 13:45) – all the while that he is in quarantine/isolation. But whereas he is pure/clean while he is in a state of being a certified leper, he is obligated for letting his hair grow in neglect and tearing his clothing, all the while that he is a certified leper. פריעה ופרימה: His clothing will be torn and his hair in disarray.

מטמאין בביאה – if they came into the tent, everything that is in the tent is defiled.

פרחה בכולו ואח"כ נתגלו בו ראשי אברים – here we are speaking about [the case] that he (i.e., the Kohen) did not manage to declare him a certified leper until it had erupted/blossomed throughout all of his body and uncovered the tips of the limbs, that Rabbi Yishmael compared him to someone who comes in totally white at the outset except for the tips of the limbs, which requires isolation/quarantine/being shut up. But Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah holds that since whereas it did not erupt/blossom, he (i.e., the Kohen) would declare him to be a certified leper, his law is like a small bright white spot on the skin which has on it quick flesh, for if it had erupted on his entire body and afterwards, the tips of the limbs were uncovered/revealed, he would be impure. And there is more to explain, that even if he had declared him a certified leper with quick flesh and it had erupted throughout all of the body and he had purified him, as Rabbi Yishmael holds, that one does not defile with the reappearance of the tops of the limbs, that one defiles with the reappearance of the tops of the limbs that is after the eruption/blossoming [which causes the leper to be declared clean], where he is pure in the practice of eruption/blossoming, but here, it is not the practice of eruption/blossoming where he is pure, for had there been a diminution of quick flesh from like the size of a lentil, he would be pure.

מי שהיה מוחלט – with white hair or quick flesh or spreading.

לא הספיק להראות לכהן – that the signs/tokens of uncleanness/impurity went away.

שאילו הראה לכהן – that the signs/tokens of impurity had gone away, he (i.e., the Kohen) would have purified hi, but if after that it flowered/erupted, he was impure, that he would be flowering from a state of being clean/pure. But now, it is for him a flowering from a state of being impure, and he is pure.

בהרת ואין בה כלום – that there is no sign/token from the signs/tokens of impurity.

עד שפרחה בכולו טמא – meaning to say, he is required to be in isolation/shut-up/quarantine like one who comes [to the Kohen] totally white at the outset. But if from the outset, prior to it erupting/flowering, he showed it to the Kohen, he would be shut up/put in isolation/quarantine, and at the end of the week when it flowered/erupted, he would be like someone who had a white eruption which causes the leper to be declared clean from within isolation and would be pure.