OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 21:20

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or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.

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Verse 20. Eyed. Hebrew dak, may denote “a dwarf.” Syriac, or something very thin. Exodus 16:14.—Pearl, (albuginem) whiteness.—Rupture, (herniosus). One perhaps troubled with the stone, ( Menochius.) whose testicles have been bruised, (Onkelos) or who has only one. Septuagint and Syriac.

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