The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said.
2 Kings 7:3-20
metzora “The law of the leper” Leviticus 14:1 – 15:33
Here are laws of purification where one submerges oneself in the flowing waters of a “mikvah.” Included in the list of things that make one impure is nocturnal emissions.
The blood markings were symbolic – in the ear for listening to God, on the hands to actively carry out the will of Hashem, and the foot to move swiftly to serve Hashem.