1 En Na„man, die leërowerste van die koning van Aram, was 'n groot man voor sy heer en hoog in aansien; want deur hom het die HERE aan die Arameërs 'n oorwinning gegee; en die man was 'n dapper held, maar melaats.

2 En die Arameërs het in bendes uitgetrek en uit die land van Israel 'n klein dogtertjie as gevangene weggevoer wat in diens van Na„man se vrou gekom het.

3 En sy het vir haar meesteres gesê: Ag, was my heer maar net by die profeet wat in Samar¡a is, dan sou hy sy melaatsheid wegneem.

4 Toe gaan hy in en gee dit aan sy heer te kenne en sê: So en so het die dogtertjie gespreek wat uit die land van Israel kom.

5 En die koning van Aram sê: Gaan dan, ek wil 'n brief aan die koning van Israel stuur. En hy het gegaan en tien talente silwer en ses duisend sikkels goud en tien stel klere saam met hom geneem,

6 en aan die koning van Israel die brief gebring van die volgende inhoud: Saam met hierdie brief aan u stuur ek dan nou my dienaar Na„man na u toe, dat u sy melaatsheid kan wegneem.

7 Sodra die koning van Israel die brief gelees het, skeur hy sy klere en sê: Is ek dan God, om dood en lewend te maak, dat hierdie man na my stuur om van 'n man sy melaatsheid weg te neem? Erken en sien tog net hoedat hy 'n geleentheid teen my soek.

8 Maar toe El¡sa, die man van God, hoor dat die koning van Israel sy klere geskeur het, laat hy die koning weet: Waarom skeur u u klere? Laat hom maar na my kom; dan sal hy weet dat daar 'n profeet in Israel is.

9 So het Na„man dan gekom met sy perde en met sy waens en voor die deur van El¡sa se huis stilgehou.

10 Toe stuur El¡sa 'n boodskapper na hom om te sê: Gaan heen, was jou sewe maal in die Jordaan; dan sal jou vlees terugkeer, en jy sal rein wees.

11 Maar Na„man het baie kwaad geword en weggegaan en gesê: Kyk, ek het gedink: Hy sal sekerlik na my uitkom en staan en die Naam van die HERE sy God aanroep en sy hand oor die plek heen en weer beweeg en die melaatsheid wegneem.

12 Is Ab na en Farpar, die riviere van Damaskus, nie beter as al die waters van Israel nie? Kon ek my nie daarin was en rein word nie? En hy het omgedraai en vererg weggery.

13 Toe kom sy dienaars nader en spreek met hom en sê: My vader, as die profeet u 'n groot saak beveel het, sou u dit nie doen nie? Hoeveel te meer nou dat hy u gesê het: Was jou, en jy sal rein word?

14 Daarop het hy afgeklim en sewe maal in die Jordaan ondergeduik volgens die woord van die man van God, en sy vlees het teruggekeer soos die vlees van 'n jong seun, en hy het rein geword.

1 Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper.

2 Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife.

3 And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.

4 And someone went and said to his lord, This is what the girl from the land of Israel says.

5 So the king of Aram said, Go then; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went, taking with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

6 And he took the letter to the king of Israel, in which the king of Aram had said, See, I have sent my servant Naaman to you to be made well, for he is a leper.

7 But the king of Israel, after reading the letter, was greatly troubled and said, Am I God, to give death and life? why does this man send a leper to me to be made well? is it not clear that he is looking for a cause of war?

8 Now Elisha, the man of God, hearing that the king of Israel had done this, sent to the king, saying, Why are you troubled? send the man to me, so that he may see that there is a prophet in Israel.

9 So Naaman, with all his horses and his carriages, came to the door of Elisha's house.

10 And Elisha sent a servant to him, saying, Go to Jordan, and after washing seven times in its waters your flesh will be well again and you will be clean.

11 But Naaman was angry and went away and said, I had the idea that he would come out to see such an important person as I am, and make prayer to the Lord his God, and with a wave of his hand over the place make the leper well.

12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not be washed in them and become clean? So turning, he went away in wrath.

13 Then his servants came to him and said, If the prophet had given you orders to do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much more then, when he says to you, Be washed and become clean?

14 Then he went down seven times into the waters of Jordan, as the man of God had said; and his flesh became like the flesh of a little child again, and he was clean.