Leviticus 13:58
13:58 But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it
1 is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”
Leviticus 13:52
13:52 He must burn the garment or the warp or the woof, whether wool or linen, or any article of leather which has the infection in it. Because it is a malignant disease it must be burned up in the fire.
Leviticus 13:56
13:56 But if the priest has examined it and
2 the infection has faded after it has been washed, he is to tear it out of
3 the garment or the leather or the warp or the woof.
Leviticus 13:59
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
1 tn Heb “and the infection turns aside from them.”
2 tn Heb “And if the priest saw and behold….”
3 tn Heb “and he shall tear it from.”
3 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.
4 tn These are declarative Piel forms of the verbs טָהֵר (taher) and טָמֵא (tame’) respectively (cf. the notes on vv. 3 and 6 above).