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Leviticus 13:42-44
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Leviticus 13:42-44
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42 But if there is a reddish white infection in the back or front bald area, it is a disease breaking out in his back or front bald area. 43 The priest is to examine it,[a] and if[b] the swelling of the infection is reddish white in the back or the front bald area like the appearance of a disease on the skin of the body,[c] 44 he is a diseased man. He is unclean. The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his infection on his head.[d]
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- Leviticus 13:43 tn Heb “and the priest shall see it” (cf. KJV). The MT has “him/it” which some take to refer to the person as a whole (i.e., “him”; see, e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:770; NIV, NRSV, etc.), while others take it as a reference to the “infection” (נֶגַע, negaʿ) in v. 42 (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 172, 177). Smr has “her/it,” which would probably refer to “disease” (צָרַעַת, tsaraʿat) in v. 42. The general pattern in the chapter suggests that “it,” either the infection or the disease, is the object of the examination (see, e.g., v. 3 above and v. 50 below).
- Leviticus 13:43 tn Heb “and behold.”
- Leviticus 13:43 tn Heb “like appearance of disease of skin of flesh.”
- Leviticus 13:44 tn Or perhaps translate, “His infection [is] on his head,” as a separate independent sentence (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV). There is no causal expression in the Hebrew text connecting these two clauses, but the logical relationship between them seems to be causal.
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