KJV King James Version
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, [whether it be] a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
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Leviticus 13:47
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, [whether it be] a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If any fabric is contaminated with mildew—any wool or linen garment,
WEB World English Bible
“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;
ASV American Standard Version
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘And when there is in any garment a plague of leprosy,—in a garment of wool, or in a garment of linen,
Surrounding context — Leviticus 13
44 He is a leprous man, he [is] unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague [is] in his head.
45 And the leper in whom the plague [is], his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
46 All the days wherein the plague [shall be] in him he shall be defiled; he [is] unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp [shall] his habitation [be].
47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, [whether it be] a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
48 Whether [it be] in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it [is] a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up [it that hath] the plague seven days:
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Jude 1:23And others save with fear, pulling [them] out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.Isaiah 64:6But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.Isaiah 3:16-24Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:Romans 13:12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.Colossians 3:3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.Ephesians 4:22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;Isaiah 59:6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.Ezekiel 16:16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].
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