While many Bible translations translate it as “leprosy,” the translation is ... The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy, and ...

This story was originally published on Sunday, April 15, 2001 and is being shared in celebration of the Beatification of ...

Throughout the Old Testament, we gain an understanding that ... In 2 Kings 5 we read how Namaan, who has leprosy, is told by the prophet to go wash seven times in the Jordan River.

but on weekends like this when the airwaves and streaming services are awash in biblical epics of every stripe—those appealing to followers of the New Testament and those favoring only the Old ...

And this old Jesuit said, he’d be terrible ... embracing the man with leprosy, Jesus embracing people. One of the great things was for me that it was natural, he wasn’t doing it for show.

In fact, when the prophetess Miriam speaks out against Moses’s marriage to his Kushite wife, she is cursed by the Creator with temporary leprosy ... cite the Christian Testament and Epistles ...

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American to be pope, is a magical choice embodying a thousand ...

The body would be perfected, as the Apostle Matthew promised in the New Testament when he wrote, “The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear.” ...

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