<p class="poetry">For Samaria&#8217;s<n id="1" /> disease<n id="2" /> is incurable.p> <p class="poetry">It has infected<n id="3" /> Judah;p> <p class="poetry">it has spread to<n id="4" /> the leadership<n id="5" /> of my peoplep> <p class="poetry">and has even contaminated Jerusalem!<n id="6" />p>

That is why to this day<n id="1" /> the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck<n id="2" /> the socket of Jacob&#8217;s hip near the attached sinew.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will release you from this place. When he releases you,<n id="2" /> he will drive you out completely<n id="3" /> from this place.

The priest must then examine the infection<n id="1" /> on the skin of the body, and if the hair<n id="2" /> in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of the body,<n id="3" /> then it is a diseased infection,<n id="4" /> so when the priest examines it<n id="5" /> he must pronounce the person unclean.<n id="6" />p>

the priest must examine it,<n id="1" /> and if<n id="2" /> the hair has turned white in the bright spot and it appears to be deeper than the skin,<n id="3" /> it is a disease that has broken out in the burn.<n id="4" /> The priest is to pronounce the person unclean.<n id="5" /> It is a diseased infection.<n id="6" />

if the infection<n id="1" /> in the garment or leather or warp or woof or any article of leather is yellowish green or reddish, it is a diseased infection and it must be shown to the priest.

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the law<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

<t /><p class="bodytext">If a matter is too difficult for you to judge &#8211; bloodshed,<n id="1" /> legal claim,<n id="2" /> or assault<n id="3" /> &#8211; matters of controversy in your villages<n id="4" /> &#8211; you must leave there and go up to the place the <sc>Lordsc> your God chooses.<n id="5" />

Then the Levitical priests<n id="1" /> will approach (for the <sc>Lordsc> your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name,<n id="2" /> and to decide<n id="3" /> every judicial verdict<n id="4" />)

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust<n id="1" /> invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,<n id="2" /> or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,<n id="1" /> as they acknowledge their pain<n id="2" /> and spread out their hands toward this temple,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust<n id="1" /> invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,<n id="2" /> or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

Then<n id="1" /> one who appeared to be a human being<n id="2" /> was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, &#8220;Sir,<n id="3" /> due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength.

For the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says to me that for his own glory<n id="1" /> he has sent me to the nations that plundered you &#8211; for anyone who touches you touches the pupil<n id="2" /> of his<n id="3" /> eye.