Imamat 13:53-54
Konteks13:53 But if the priest examines it and 1 the infection has not spread in the garment or in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather, 13:54 the priest is to command that they wash whatever has the infection and quarantine it for another seven days. 2
Imamat 13:58-59
Konteks13:58 But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it 3 is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”
Summary of Infection Regulations
13:59 This is the law 4 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. 5
[13:53] 1 tn Heb “And if the priest sees and behold”; NASB “and indeed.”
[13:54] 2 tn Heb “a second seven days.”
[13:58] 3 tn Heb “and the infection turns aside from them.”
[13:59] 4 sn The Hebrew term translated “law” (תוֹרָה, 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.
[13:59] 5 tn These are declarative Piel forms of the verbs טָהֵר (taher) and טָמֵא (tame’) respectively (cf. the notes on vv. 3 and 6 above).