If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
Parallel translations
- WEB “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,
- BSB If a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,
- NKJV “If a man or woman has a sore on the head or the beard,
- NASB “Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard,
- NLT “If anyone, either a man or woman, has a sore on the head or chin,
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Quick answer
A further case concerns a sore on the head or in the beard. The law addresses afflictions of the scalp and facial hair.
Overview
The instruction turns to a man or woman with an affliction on the head or in the beard. Including women here shows the law applied to all. The thorough coverage of every part of the body reflects God's comprehensive concern for the holiness and welfare of His whole people, men and women alike.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- 1 Kgs 12:28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kgs 8:38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
- 2 Chr 6:29Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
- Isa 1:5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Isa 9:15The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
- Isa 5:20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
- Mic 3:11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
- Acts 26:9–10I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Acts 22:3–4I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
- 2 Cor 4:3–4But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
- 2 Th 2:11–12And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
- Ps 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
- Matt 13:14–15And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
- Matt 6:23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
- John 16:2–3They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
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