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2 Kings 7:3-5
New Living Translation
2 Kings 7:3-5
New Living Translation
Outcasts Visit the Enemy Camp
3 Now there were four men with leprosy[a] sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. 4 “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.”
5 So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there!
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- 7:3 Or with a contagious skin disease. The Hebrew word used here and throughout this passage can describe various skin diseases.
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