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Leviticus 14
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “This shall be the law of the leper in the
day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to
the priest,
3 and the priest shall go out of the camp.
The priest shall examine him. Behold, if
the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
4 then the priest shall command them
to take for him who is to be cleansed two
living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and
hyssop.
5 The priest shall command them to kill
one of the birds in an earthen vessel over
running water.
6 As for the livingbird, he shalltake it,the
cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop,
and shall dip them and the living bird in
the blood of the bird that was killed over
the running water.
7 He shall sprinkle on him who is to be
cleansedfromthe leprosy seventimes, and
shall pronounce him clean, and shall let
the living bird go into the open field.
8 “He who is to be cleansed shall wash
his clothes, and shave off all his hair,
and bathe himself in water; and he shall
be clean. After that he shall come into
the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent
seven days.
9 It shall be on the seventh day, that he
shall shave all his hair off his head and his
beard and his eyebrows. He shall shave off
all his hair. He shall wash his clothes, and
he shall bathe his body in water. Then he
shall be clean.
10 “On the eighth day he shall take two
male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb
a year old without defect, three tenths of
an ephah† of fine flour for a meal offering,
mixed with oil, and one log‡ of oil.
11 The priest who cleanses him shall set
the man who is to be cleansed, and those
things, before Yahweh, at the door of the
Tent of Meeting.
12 “The priest shall take one of the male
lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for
a wave offering before Yahweh.
13 He shall kill the male lamb in the place
where they kill the sin offering and the
burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so
is the trespass offering. It is most holy.
14 The priest shall take some of the blood
ofthe trespass offering, and the priest shall
put it on the tip of the right ear of him who
is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his
right hand, and on the big toe of his right
foot.
15 The priest shall take some of the log of
oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left
hand.
16 The priest shall dip his right finger in
the oil that is in his left hand, and shall
sprinkle some of the oil with his finger
seven times before Yahweh.
17 The priest shall put some of the rest of
the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the
right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and
on the thumb of his right hand, and on the
big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of
the trespass offering.
18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s
hand he shall put on the head of him who
is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make
atonement for him before Yahweh.
19 “The priest shall offer the sin offering,
and make atonement for him who is to
be cleansed because of his uncleanness.
Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
20 then the priest shall offer the burnt
offering and the meal offering on the altar.
The priest shall make atonement for him,
and he shall be clean.
21 “If he is poor, and can’t afford so much,
then he shall take one male lamb for a
trespass offering to be waved, to make
atonement for him, and one tenth of an
ephah§ of fine flour mixed with oil for a
meal offering, and a log† of oil;
22 and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the
one shall be a sin offering, and the other a
burnt offering.
23 “On the eighth day he shall bring them
for his cleansing to the priest, to the door
of the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh.
24 The priest shall take the lamb of the
trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the
priest shall wave them for a wave offering
before Yahweh.
25 He shall kill the lamb of the trespass
offering. The priest shall take some of the
blood of the trespass offering and put it on
the tip of the right ear of him who is to
be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right
hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
26 The priest shall pour some of the oil
into the palm of his own left hand;
27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his
right finger some of the oil that is in his left
hand seven times before Yahweh.
28 Then the priest shall put some of the
oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right
ear ofhimwho is to be cleansed, and onthe
thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe
of his right foot, on the place of the blood
of the trespass offering.
29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s
hand he shall put onthe head of him who is
to be cleansed, to make atonement for him
before Yahweh.
30 He shall offer one ofthe turtledoves, or
ofthe young pigeons, which ever he is able
to afford,
31 of the kind he is able to afford, the one
for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
offering, with the meal offering. The priest
shall make atonement for him who is to be
cleansed before Yahweh.”
32 This is the law for him in whom is the
plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford
the sacrifice for his cleansing.
33 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
saying,
34 “When you have come into the land
of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I
put a spreading mildew in a
house in the land of your possession,
35 then he who owns the house shall
come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There
seems tome tobe some sort ofplague inthe
house.’
36 The priest shall command that they
empty the house, before the priest goes in
to examine the plague, that all that is in the
house not be made unclean. Afterward the
priest shall go in to inspect the house.
37 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the
house with hollow streaks, greenish or
reddish, and it appears to be deeper than
the wall,
38 thenthe priest shall go out ofthehouse
to the door of the house, and shut up the
house seven days.
39 The priest shall come again on the
seventh day, and look. If the plague has
spread in the walls of the house,
40 then the priest shall command that
they take out the stones in which is the
plague, and cast them into an unclean
place outside of the city.
41 He shall cause the inside of the house
to be scraped all over. They shall pour out
the mortar that they scraped off outside of
the city into an unclean place.
42 They shall take other stones, and put
them in the place of those stones; and he
shall take other mortar, and shall plaster
the house.
43 “Ifthe plague comes again, and breaks
out in the house after he has taken out the
stones, and after he has scraped the house,
and after it was plastered,
44 then the priest shall come in and look;
and behold, if the plague has spread in
the house, it is a destructive mildew in the
house. It is unclean.
45 He shall break down the house, its
stones, and its timber, and all the house’s
mortar. He shall carry them out of the city
into an unclean place.
46 “Moreover he who goes into the house
while itis shutup shall beuncleanuntilthe
evening.
47 He who lies down in the house shall
wash his clothes; and he who eats in the
house shall wash his clothes.
48 “If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread
inthehouse, after thehouse wasplastered,
then the priest shall pronounce the house
clean, because the plague is healed.
49 To cleanse the house he shall take two
birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
50 He shall kill one of the birds in an
earthen vessel over running water.
51 He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop,the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip
them in the blood of the slain bird, and in
the running water, and sprinkle the house
seven times.
52 He shall cleanse the house with the
blood of the bird, and with the running
water, with the living bird, with the cedar
wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;
53 but he shall let the living bird go out
of the city into the open field. So shall he
make atonementfor the house; and it shall
be clean.”
54 This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,
55 and for the destructive mildew of a
garment, and for a house,
56 and for a swelling, and for a scab, and
for a bright spot;
57 to teach when it is unclean, and when
it is clean.
This is the law of leprosy.