Leviticus 14:1-37 ▼

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. And he shall be brought to the priest,

3 and the priest shall go out to the outside of the camp. And the priest shall examine him, and behold, if the plague of the leprosy is healed in the leper,

4 then the priest shall command, and he shall take for the one being cleansed two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop.

5 And the priest shall command, and he shall slaughter one of the birds in an earthen vessel over living water.

6 The living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the living water.

7 And he shall sprinkle it on the one being cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and he shall send out the living bird upon the face of the field.

8 And the one being cleansed shall wash his clothes and he shall shave off all his hair, and he shall wash himself in the water, and he shall be clean. And afterward he shall come into the camp, and he shall dwell outside of his tent seven days.

9 And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair—his head and his beard and his eyebrows—and all his hair he shall shave off. And he shall wash his clothes, and he shall wash his flesh in the water, and he shall be clean.

10 And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs, unblemished, and one ewe lamb, a daughter of a year, unblemished, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with the oil, and one log of oil.

11 And the priest, the one cleansing, shall present the man, the one being cleansed, and together with these before the face of YHWH at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

12 And the priest shall take the one male lamb, and he shall bring it near for a guilt offering, and the log of the oil, and he shall wave them as a wave offering before the face of YHWH.

13 And he shall slaughter the lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering, in a holy place; for like the sin offering, the guilt offering. It is for the priest; it is holy of holies.

14 And the priest shall take from the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of the one being cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

15 And the priest shall take from the log of the oil, and he shall pour it upon the palm of the priest's left hand,

16 and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is upon his left palm, and he shall sprinkle from the oil with his finger seven times before the face of YHWH.

17 And from the remainder of the oil that is upon his palm, the priest shall put some on the tip of the right ear of the one being cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering.

18 And the rest of the oil that is upon the palm of the priest, he shall put on the head of the one being cleansed; and the priest shall make atonement upon him before the face of YHWH.

19 And the priest shall do the sin offering, and he shall make atonement upon the one being cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering.

20 And the priest shall cause the burnt offering and the grain offering to go up on the altar. And the priest shall make atonement upon him, and he shall be clean.

21 And if he is poor, and his hand cannot reach, then he shall take one male lamb, a guilt offering, for a wave offering, to make atonement upon him, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, one mixed with the oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil,

22 and two turtledoves or two sons of a pigeon, which his hand can reach; and one shall be a sin offering, and the one a burnt offering.

23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before the face of YHWH.

24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering, and the log of the oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the face of YHWH.

25 And he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take from the blood of the guilt offering, and he shall put it on the tip of the right ear of the one being cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

26 And the priest shall pour from the oil upon the palm of the priest's left hand.

27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger from the oil that is upon his left palm seven times before the face of YHWH.

28 And the priest shall put from the oil that is upon his palm on the tip of the right ear of the one being cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering.

29 And the remainder from the oil that is upon the palm of the priest he shall put on the head of the one being cleansed, to make atonement upon him before the face of YHWH.

30 And he shall do one from the turtledoves or from the sons of the pigeon, from which his hand reaches to,

31 that which his hand reaches, the one as a sin offering and the one as a burnt offering, with the grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement upon the one being cleansed before the face of YHWH.

32 This is the law of him in whom is a plague of leprosy, whose hand does not reach in his cleansing.”

33 And YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

34 “When you? come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you? for a possession, and I put a plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your? possession,

35 then he to whom the house belongs shall come, and he shall tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like a plague has appeared to me in the house.’

36 And the priest shall command, and they shall empty the house before the priest goes in to examine the plague, and all that is in the house shall not become unclean. And after thus, the priest shall go in to examine the house.

37 And he shall examine the plague, and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house—hollow spots, greenish or reddish—and their appearance is lower than the wall,