In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword ¹  and went to the unsuspecting city ²  and slaughtered every male.

The archers will attack him, ¹  they will shoot at him and oppose him.

If, however, ¹  the raw flesh once again turns white, ²  then he must come to the priest.

Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ¹  the archers ²  spotted him and wounded him severely.

May all my enemies be humiliated ¹  and absolutely terrified! ²  May they turn back and be suddenly humiliated!

For your arrows pierce ¹  me, and your hand presses me down. ² 

I am numb with pain and severely battered; ¹  I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel. ² 

The Lord severely ¹  punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.

There is no one to plead your cause. There are no remedies for your wounds. ¹  There is no healing for you.

The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if, ¹  as far as he can see, the infection has stayed the same ²  and has not spread on the skin, ³  then the priest is to quarantine the person for another seven days. ⁴ 

When Ephraim saw ¹  his sickness and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim turned ²  to Assyria, and begged ³  its great king ⁴  for help. But he will not be able to heal you! He cannot cure your wound! ⁵ 

The priest must then examine the infection on the seventh day, and if ¹  the scall has not spread, there is no reddish yellow hair in it, and the scall does not appear to be deeper than the skin, ² 

he is a diseased man. He is unclean. The priest must surely pronounce him unclean because of his infection on his head. ¹ 

or a hunchback, or a dwarf, ¹  or one with a spot in his eye, ²  or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, ³  or a crushed testicle.

The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils – from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

May his blood whirl over ¹  the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! ²  May the males of Joab’s house ³  never cease to have ⁴  someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle ⁵  or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”

The priest must then examine it again on the seventh day, ¹  and if ²  the infection has faded and has not spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person clean. ³  It is a scab, ⁴  so he must wash his clothes ⁵  and be clean.

“When someone has a diseased infection, ¹  he must be brought to the priest.

“This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall, ¹ 

She was very upset ¹  as she prayed to the Lord, and she was weeping uncontrollably. ²