Quoting%20commentary for Megillah 1:7

אֵין בֵּין זָב הָרוֹאֶה שְׁתֵּי רְאִיּוֹת לְרוֹאֶה שָׁלֹשׁ אֶלָּא קָרְבָּן. אֵין בֵּין מְצֹרָע מֻסְגָּר לִמְצֹרָע מֻחְלָט אֶלָּא פְרִיעָה וּפְרִימָה. אֵין בֵּין טָהוֹר מִתּוֹךְ הֶסְגֵּר לְטָהוֹר מִתּוֹךְ הֶחְלֵט אֶלָּא תִגְלַחַת וְצִפֳּרִים:

There is no difference between a zav (one with a genital discharge) who has two sightings [whether on one day or on two consecutive days] and one who has three sightings [whether on one day or on three consecutive days or two on one day and one the next], but the offering. [A zav who has two sightings does not require an offering; but as far as rendering what he lies on and what he sits on av hatumah (proto-uncleanliness), even if he does not touch them, and (as far as) the counting of seven days from the cessation of his discharge, seven clean days being required before he can immerse (for purification), they are both alike.] There is no difference between a quarantined leper (musgar), viz. (Leviticus 13:5): "Then the priest shall quarantine him for seven days," and a confirmed leper (muchlat), [whom the priest confirms as unclean], but letting the hair grow long and rending of garments, (required by a confirmed leper, but not by a quarantined one), [but as far as being sent away and being unclean, they are both alike.] There is no difference between one cleansed after quarantine and one cleansed after confirmation (as a leper) but (the mitzvah of) shaving and (that of) the birds, [it being written in this regard (Leviticus 14:3): "…and, behold, if the plague-spot of leprosy is healed from the leper" — to exclude a quarantined leper, whose leprosy does not hinge upon healing, but upon days (of quarantine). For even if it were healed, he must remain quarantined for seven days. But as far as cleansing in the mikveh, they are both alike. For in respect to cleansing after quarantine it is also written (Ibid. 13:6): "And he shall wash his clothes, and he shall cleanse himself." And even though there are the guilt-offerings and the log of oil, (required by the confirmed leper, but not by the quarantined one), our Mishnah speaks of the day of his cleansing and his healing, and not of offerings, which obtain on the eighth day.]

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