When a boil appears on someone’s skin and it heals,
Parallel translations
- WEB “When the body has a boil on its skin, and it has healed,
- KJV The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
- NKJV “If the body develops a boil in the skin, and it is healed,
- NASB “Now when the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,
- NLT “If anyone has a boil on the skin that has started to heal,
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Quick answer
A new case is introduced: a boil on the skin that has healed. The law addresses conditions arising at the site of an old sore.
Overview
The instruction turns to a person who had a boil on the skin that has since healed. This sets up the question of whether disease has reappeared at the old site. The careful attention to a healed-then-troubled spot shows the thoroughness of the law, which leaves no ambiguous case without guidance.
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Cross-references · 6
- Exod 9:9It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”
- 2 Kgs 20:7Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.
- Isa 38:21Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
- Exod 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
- Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
- Ps 38:3–7There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
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