Leviticus 14

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Cleansing from Skin Diseases

¹Then the LORD said to Moses,

¹And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

²“This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease^a on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.

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

³The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed,

³and 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,

⁴the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.

⁴then 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.

⁵Then the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water^a in a clay pot.

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

⁶And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.

⁶The 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.

⁷Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the skin disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and release the live bird into the open field.

⁷And 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.

⁸The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

⁸And 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.

⁹On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.

⁹And 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.

¹⁰On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour^a mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil.^b

¹⁰And 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.

¹¹The priest who performs the cleansing shall present the one to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

¹¹And 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.

¹²Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil; and he must wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

¹²And 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.

¹³Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

¹³And 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.

¹⁴The priest is to take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

¹⁴And 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.

¹⁵Then the priest shall take some of the log of olive oil, pour it into his left palm,

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

¹⁶dip his right forefinger into the oil in his left palm, and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.

¹⁶and 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.

¹⁷And the priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.

¹⁷And 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.

¹⁸The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.

¹⁸And 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.

¹⁹Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering

¹⁹And 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.

²⁰and offer it on the altar, with the grain offering, to make atonement for him, and he will be clean.

²⁰And 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.

²¹If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour^a mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,

²¹And 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,

²²and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

²²and 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.

²³On the eighth day he is to bring them for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD.

²³And 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.

²⁴The priest shall take the lamb for the guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

²⁴And 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.

²⁵And after he slaughters the lamb for the guilt offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

²⁵And 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.

²⁶Then the priest is to pour some of the oil into his left palm

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

²⁷and sprinkle with his right forefinger some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the LORD.

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

²⁸The priest shall also put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot—on the same places as the blood of the guilt offering.

²⁸And 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.

²⁹The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.

²⁹And 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.

³⁰Then he must sacrifice the turtledoves or young pigeons, whichever he can afford,

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

³¹one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering,^a together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.

³¹that 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.

³²This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”

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

Signs of Home Contamination

³³Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

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

³⁴“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew^a into a house in that land,

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,

³⁵the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘Something like mildew has appeared in my house.’

³⁵then 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.’

³⁶The priest must order that the house be cleared before he enters it to examine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will become unclean. After this, the priest shall go in to inspect the house.

³⁶And 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.

³⁷He is to examine the house, and if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,

³⁷And 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,

³⁸the priest shall go outside the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.

³⁸then the priest shall go out from the house to the door of the house, and he shall shut up the house seven days.

³⁹On the seventh day the priest is to return and inspect the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls,

³⁹And the priest shall return on the seventh day and he shall examine, and behold, if the plague has spread in the walls of the house,

⁴⁰he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

⁴⁰then the priest shall command, and they shall take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them to the outside of the city, to an unclean place.

⁴¹And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.

⁴¹And he shall cause the house to be scraped from the house all around, and they shall pour out the dust that they have scraped off to the outside of the city, to an unclean place.

⁴²So different stones must be obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional mortar to replaster the house.

⁴²And they shall take other stones, and they shall bring them to the place of the stones; and he shall take other mortar, and he shall plaster the house.

⁴³If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house has been scraped and replastered,

⁴³And if the plague returns and it breaks out in the house after his taking out of the stones, and after his scraping the house, and after his plastering,

⁴⁴the priest must come and inspect it.

If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.

⁴⁴then the priest shall come and he shall examine, and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a harmful leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

⁴⁵It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

⁴⁵And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timbers, and all the mortar of the house, and he shall carry them to the outside of the city, to an unclean place.

⁴⁶Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening.

⁴⁶And the one coming into the house all the days of his shutting it up shall be unclean until the evening.

⁴⁷And anyone who sleeps in the house or eats in it must wash his clothes.

⁴⁷And the one lying down in the house shall wash his clothes, and the one eating in the house shall wash his clothes.

Cleansing a Home

⁴⁸If, however, the priest comes and inspects it, and the mildew has not spread after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the mildew is gone.

⁴⁸And if the priest surely comes and examines it, and behold, the plague has not spread in the house after the plastering of the house, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the plague has been healed.

⁴⁹He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house;

⁴⁹And he shall take to cleanse from sin the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop,

⁵⁰and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.

⁵⁰and he shall slaughter one of the birds in an earthen vessel over living water.

⁵¹Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

⁵¹And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn, and the living bird, and he shall dip them in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered and in the living water, and he shall sprinkle it toward the house seven times.

⁵²And he shall cleanse the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.

⁵²And he shall cleanse from sin the house with the blood of the bird, and with the living water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet yarn.

⁵³Finally, he is to release the live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

⁵³And he shall send away the living bird to the outside of the city to the face of the field, and he shall make atonement upon the house, and it shall be clean.

⁵⁴This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,

⁵⁴This is the law for every plague of leprosy, and for the scale,

⁵⁵for mildew in clothing or in a house,

⁵⁵and for leprosy of the garment and of the house,

⁵⁶and for a swelling, rash, or spot,

⁵⁶and for a swelling, and for the scab, and for the bright spot—

⁵⁷to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”^a

⁵⁷to teach in the day of the unclean, and in the day of the clean. This is the law of the leprosy.”