Rather, is it not referring to a lengthy naziriteship, and nevertheless it teaches: He starts counting immediately - from the day that he is presently, and he finishes that series of days that began before he was confirmed [a leper]. But the days in which he was confirmed [a leper] do not count for him.

To a naziriteship of fifty days etc. [where he sat and observed twenty days and developed leprosy. He shaves on account of his leprosy and the days in which he was confirmed do not count for him] - because if you will say that they do count for him, he won't have enough [time remaining] in order to grow his hair after his leprosy-related shaving. Therefore following that he will need to sit for thirty days of naziriteship so that he has hair growth.

Rami bar Ḥama raised an objection: a nazirite who has uncertain impurity and one whose status as a confirmed leper is uncertain - who possibly became impure on the first day of his term of naziriteship, or if it is uncertain if he was confirmed and healed on the first day of his term of naziriteship.