The Differences Between Skin Disease and Leprosy

Hansen's disease, true leprosy, mutilates people. It disfigures people. Your skin terms lumpy, your eyeballs are glazed. You can lose digits, fingers, and toes. The discrepancy there is really due to translation tradition. They understood that what the Leviticus was talking about wasn't that. So this is not something totally new in the wake of modern medicine.