"And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?"
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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.
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
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:
Now there were four lepers seated at the doorway into the town: and they said to one another, Why are we waiting here for death?
And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we abide here until we die?
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate, and they say one unto another, `What -- we are sitting here till we have died;