“If a man or woman has a sore on the head or the beard,
Parallel translations
- WEB “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,
- KJV If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
- BSB If a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,
- 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 12:28So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- 1 Kgs 8:38whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,
- 2 Chr 6:29whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house;
- Isa 1:5Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Isa 9:15The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
- Isa 5:20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
- Mic 3:11Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
- Acts 26:9–10“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Acts 22:3–4“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
- 2 Cor 4:3–4Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;
- 2 Th 2:11–12Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
- Ps 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
- Matt 13:14–15In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:
- Matt 6:23But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
- John 16:2–3They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
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