Compare verses 7.

His cleansing: this refers to the pronouncement by the priest that the sick person was clean. The passive formulation of Good News Translation will have to be made active in some languages: “after the priest has pronounced him clean.”

Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .