The Hebrew and Greek that is translated with “clothes” or similar in English is translated in Enlhet as “crawling-in-stuff” (source: Jacob Loewen in The Bible Translator 1971, p. 169ff. ) and in Noongar as bwoka or “Kangaroo skin” (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang).
Translation commentary on Leviticus 13:58
Warp or woof: yet another repetition that may be considered unnatural and unnecessary. It may be left implicit.
From which the disease departs: New Jerusalem Bible restructures the first part of this verse slightly and begins “If, however, the affection disappears….” This may serve as a good model for other languages.
When you have washed it: Good News Translation again takes the second person singular pronoun to refer to the owner of the object. But here the pronoun “he” is substituted.
Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .
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