Elisha sent a messenger to Naaman. {The messenger} said, “Go, and wash in the Jordan River seven times. Then your skin will be healed, and you will be pure and clean.”
Leviticus 13:58 - Easy To Read Version But if the mildew did not come back after washing, then that piece of leather or cloth is clean. [188] It does not matter if the cloth was woven or knitted. That cloth is clean.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the garment, or the woven or knitted stuff or warp or woof, or anything made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean. American Standard Version (1901) And the garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean. Common English Bible But if the infection disappears from the cloth, the weaving, or any item of skin that you washed, it must be washed again. Then it will be clean. Catholic Public Domain Version If it will have ceased, he shall wash with water the parts which are pure for a second time, and they shall be clean. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If it cease, he shall wash with water the parts that are pure, the second time: and they shall be clean. |
Elisha sent a messenger to Naaman. {The messenger} said, “Go, and wash in the Jordan River seven times. Then your skin will be healed, and you will be pure and clean.”
So Naaman did what the man of God [47] (Elisha) said. Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan River seven times. And Naaman became pure and clean! Naaman’s skin became soft like the skin of a baby.
God, scrub away my guilt.\par Wash away my sins,\par Make me clean again!\par
But the mildew [187] might come back to that piece of leather or cloth. If that happens, then the mildew is spreading. That piece of leather or cloth must be burned.
Those are the rules for mildew [189] on pieces of leather or cloth. It does not matter if the cloth is woven or knitted.
Dear friends, we have these promises \{from God\}. So we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes our body or our soul unclean. We should try to become perfect in the way we live, because we respect God.
Those gifts and sacrifices were only about food and drink and special washings. Those things were only rules about the body—\{not about things inside people’s hearts\}. God gave those rules \{for his people to follow\} until the time of God’s new way.
and from Jesus Christ. Jesus is the faithful witness. He was first among those to be raised from death. Jesus is the ruler of the kings of the earth.