Leviticus 14
1 The LORD spoke to Moses:
2 “This is the procedure for a person with a skin disease on the day of his purification: he shall be brought to the priest.
3 The priest shall go outside the camp and examine him. If the diseased area has healed,
4 the priest shall order that two live, clean birds, cedarwood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the person being purified.
5 The priest shall order that one of the birds be slaughtered over an earthenware vessel containing fresh water.
6 He shall take the live bird, the cedarwood, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and dip them, along with the live bird, in the blood of the bird slaughtered over the fresh water.
7 He shall sprinkle it seven times on the person being purified from the skin disease, declare him clean, and release the live bird into the open field.
8 The person being purified shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, bathe in water, and be clean. Afterward he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.
9 On the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair: his head, beard, and eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and be clean.
10 On the eighth day he shall take two unblemished male lambs, one unblemished year-old female lamb, three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one log of oil.
11 The priest who performs the purification shall present the person being purified and these offerings before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting.”
12 “The priest shall take one of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, together with the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
13 He shall slaughter the lamb where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered, in the holy place. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the person being purified, 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 his own left palm.
16 He shall dip his right finger in the oil in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.
17 From the oil remaining in his palm, the priest shall put some on the right earlobe of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, over the blood of the guilt offering.
18 The priest shall put the oil remaining in his palm on the head of the person being purified. In this way the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.
19 The priest shall offer the sin offering and make atonement for the person being purified from his uncleanness. Afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering.
20 The priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. In this way the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
21 “But if he is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he shall take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him; one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; and one log of oil.
22 He shall also take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, according to what he can afford: one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
23 On the eighth day of his purification he shall bring them to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the LORD.”
24 “The priest shall take the male lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
25 He shall slaughter the male lamb for the guilt offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the person being purified, 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 his own left palm.
27 With his right finger, the priest shall sprinkle some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the LORD.
28 From the oil in his palm, the priest shall put some on the right earlobe of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, where the blood of the guilt offering was put.
29 The priest shall put the oil remaining in his palm on the head of the person being purified, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
30 He shall offer one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, according to what he can afford.
31 From what he can afford, he shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. In this way the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person being purified.
32 This is the procedure for a person with a skin disease who cannot afford the offerings for his purification.”
33 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:
34 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, I will put a spreading mildew in a house in the land you possess.
35 Then the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘Something like a stain has appeared in my house.’
36 The priest shall order the house to be emptied before he enters to examine the stain, so that everything in the house will not become unclean. Afterward the priest shall enter to examine the house.
37 He shall examine the stain. If the walls of the house have greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,
38 the priest shall go out of the house to its doorway and shut up the house for seven days.
39 On the seventh day the priest shall return and examine it. If the stain has spread on the walls of the house,
40 the priest shall order that the stones on which the stain appears be removed and thrown outside the city, in an unclean place.
41 He shall have the entire inside of the house scraped, and the scrapings shall be thrown outside the city, in an unclean place.
42 They shall take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.
43 But if the stain reappears and breaks out in the house after the stones have been removed, the house scraped, and the plaster applied,
44 the priest shall enter and examine it. If the stain has spread in the house, it is a destructive skin disease in the house; it is unclean.
45 He shall order the house to be demolished—the stones, the timber, and all the plaster of the house—and everything shall be taken outside the city to an unclean place.
46 Anyone who enters the house during the days it is shut up shall be unclean until evening.”
47 “Anyone who sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and anyone who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 But if the priest enters and examines it, and the stain has not spread in the house after it was replastered, he shall declare the house clean, because the stain has healed.
49 To purify the house, he shall take two birds, cedarwood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
50 He shall slaughter one of the birds over an earthenware vessel containing fresh water.
51 He shall take the cedarwood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water. Then he shall sprinkle the house seven times.
52 In this way he shall purify the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedarwood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.
53 Then he shall release the live bird outside the city into the open field. In this way he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
54 This is the procedure for every skin disease and scaly condition,
55 for mildew on clothing and in a house,
56 for a swelling, a rash, and a spot,
57 to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean. This is the procedure for skin disease.”
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