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 # If you are willing, you can make me clean
 
-The phrase "to make me clean" is understood from the next phrase. AT: "If you are willing to make me clean, then you can make me clean" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])
+In the first phrase, the words "to make me clean" are understood because of the second phrase. AT: "If you are willing to make me clean, then you can make me clean" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])
 
 # are willing
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The phrase "to make me clean" is understood from the next phrase. AT: "If you ar
 
 # you can make me clean
 
-In biblical times, a person who had certain skin diseases was considered unclean until the skin was healed enough to no longer be contagious. AT: "you can heal me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
+In biblical times, a person who had any of certain skin diseases was considered unclean until his skin had healed enough that he was no longer contagious. AT: "you can heal me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
 
 # Moved with compassion, Jesus