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Leviticus 14:54-57  New English Translation

Summary of Purification Regulations for Infections

54 “This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall,[a] 55 for the diseased garment,[b] for the house,[c] 56 for the swelling,[d] for the scab,[e] and for the bright spot,[f] 57 to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean.[g] This is the law for dealing with infectious disease.”[h]

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  1. Leviticus 14:54 tn Heb “and for the scall”; NASB “a scale”; NIV “any infectious skin disease.” Cf. Lev 13:29-37.
  2. Leviticus 14:55 sn Cf. Lev 13:47-59.
  3. Leviticus 14:55 sn Cf. Lev 14:33-53.
  4. Leviticus 14:56 sn Cf. Lev 13:9-28, 43.
  5. Leviticus 14:56 sn Cf. Lev 13:2.
  6. Leviticus 14:56 sn Cf. Lev 13:4, 18-28, 38-39. For explanations of all these terms for disease in Lev 14:56 see 13:2.
  7. Leviticus 14:57 tn Heb “to teach in the day of the unclean and in the day of the clean.”
  8. Leviticus 14:57 tn Heb “This is the law of the disease.” Some English versions specify this as “skin disease” (e.g., NIV, NLT), but then have to add “and mildew” (NIV) or “and infectious mildew” (NLT) because a house would not be infected with a skin disease.sn For an explanation of the term “disease” see Lev 13:2.
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