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58 But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it[a] is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”

Summary of Infection Regulations

59 This is the law[b] of the diseased infection in the garment of wool or linen, or the warp or woof, or any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 13:58 tn Heb “and the infection turns aside from them.”
  2. Leviticus 13:59 sn The Hebrew term translated “law” (תּוֹרָה, torah) introduces here a summary or colophon for all of Lev 13. Similar summaries are found in Lev 7:37-38; 11:46-47; 14:54-57; and 15:32-33.
  3. Leviticus 13:59 tn These are declarative Piel forms of the verbs טָהֵר (taher) and טָמֵא (tameʾ) respectively (cf. the notes on vv. 3 and 6 above).