2 Kings 5:14

5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. ¹  His skin became as smooth as a young child’s ²  and he was healed.

2 Kings 5:27

5:27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict ³  you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi ⁴  went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow. ⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

² tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”

³ tn Heb “cling to.”

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Traditionally, “he went from before him, leprous like snow.” But see the note at 5:1, as well as M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 66.