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Leviticus 13:57-59
New English Translation
Leviticus 13:57-59
New English Translation
57 Then if[a] it still appears again in the garment or the warp or the woof, or in any article of leather, it is an outbreak. Whatever has the infection in it you must burn up in the fire. 58 But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it[b] is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”
Summary of Infection Regulations
59 This is the law[c] 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.[d]
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- Leviticus 13:57 tn Heb “And if”; NIV, NCV “But if”; NAB “If, however.”
- Leviticus 13:58 tn Heb “and the infection turns aside from them.”
- 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.
- 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).
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