Supposing this translation the correct one, it will be a hard matter to explain how it was the hair should simultaneously have turned _white_, a circumstance which strangely enough caused even Hensler no surprise. Rosenmüller in his Scholia on the passage says: _Schilling_ (_De lepra p. 7._) observat, in lepra alba pilos albescere_, (_Schilling_, On Leprosy p. 7. notes that in white leprosy the hair grows white); but it is only the _partes pilosae aut capillatae_ (hairy parts, parts covered with long hair) that are here intended, and these are to be understood as including merely the head, eye-brows, chin, armpits and pubic region. Obviously the hair on other parts of the body cannot be taken here into consideration, as it is specifically almost colourless, and though it is true it may have had a stronger coloration in many Jews, surely they did not _all_ belong to the race of Esau. Again all writers on leprosy, when this mischief affecting the hair is in question, speak solely of the hair of the parts named[182]. So when _Haly Abbas_ in a passage quoted by Hensler (_Excerpta_ p. 9.), in which he is treating of _Allopitia_ and _Tyria_ (forms of leprosy), says, _Nonnunquam totius accidit pilis corporis_ (Sometimes this happens to all the hair of the body), this also is to be understood merely of the parts above named. Indeed _Hensler_ himself (Vom Aussatz,—On Leprosy, p. 304.) assumes this when, after speaking of the hair of the head and beard, he goes on: “But this mischief may also attack other hairy parts of the body. _Haly Abbas_ says, (_Excerpta_ p. 9.) At times this affects also the hair of the whole body. True the passage of _Hippocrates_, in view of the erroneous punctuation, seems to belong more properly to what follows, still even by itself it would be probable enough, as _the preliminary symptoms are found particularly in the arm-pit and the groin_, and might of course extend their ravages there, just as much as on the head.” However should anyone wish to understand here _all_ the hairy parts of the body mentioned, and suppose the Author to be speaking in the first instance in a general sense, then what follows will not agree, for the hair of the head and beard was _not_ changed into _white_, but into _yellow_ (צָהֹב), as V. 30 states. There are left therefore only the eye-brows, arm-pits and the pubic region, to which the transformation to white can apply.