And he urged him to take it but he refused.ġ7. But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.ġ6. Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.ġ5. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?ġ4. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.ġ3. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.ġ2. And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.ġ1. So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.ġ0. And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.ĩ. And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.Ĩ. And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.ħ. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.Ħ. And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.ĥ. And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.Ĥ. And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid and she waited on Naaman's wife.ģ. Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.Ģ. Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh.ġ. Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:Ģ9. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him Ģ. What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. 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.Ģ.This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest: 3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper.Ĥ. These passages are from the Hebrew Scripture.Ĥ5. The Old Testament provided many religious stigma against lepers, while the New Testament also exemplied Jesus' holiness and compassion in dealing with the lowest of the social strata. Bible passages from both the New Testament and Old Testament affected the perceptions of lepers as sinful and unclean. Christianity was a major influence on the treatment of lepers during the Middle Ages.
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