Laws of Purification for Healed Lepers
Leviticus 14, verse 1. Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Leviticus 14, verse 2. “This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest. Leviticus 14, verse 3. The priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine him; and indeed, if the leprous infection is healed in the leper, Leviticus 14, verse 4. the priest shall give orders to take, for the one declared clean, two small birds, live and clean, and also cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. Leviticus 14, verse 5. Then the priest must give orders that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. Leviticus 14, verse 6. As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet and hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird killed over the running water. Leviticus 14, verse 7. Then he shall sprinkle the water seven times on the one cleansed from his leprosy, and he shall be clean; then he shall send away the living bird into a field. Leviticus 14, verse 8. And the one who was cleansed shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water; and he shall be clean. After this, he shall come into the camp, and shall stay outside his tent seven days. Leviticus 14, verse 9. But on the seventh day he shall shave all the hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows—all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes and wash his body in water, and he shall be clean. Leviticus 14, verse 10. “Then on the eighth day he shall take two one-year-old lambs without blemish, a one-year-old sheep without blemish, three-tenths of the finest wheaten flour for a grain offering mixed with oil, and also one cup of oil. Leviticus 14, verse 11. Then together with these things, the priest who cleanses shall present before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of testimony the man to be made cleansed. Leviticus 14, verse 12. The priest shall then take one lamb and offer it as a trespass offering, and the cup of oil, and set them apart as a wave offering before the Lord. Leviticus 14, verse 13. Then he shall kill the lamb in the place where he kills the sin offering and the whole burnt offering, in a holy place; for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy. Leviticus 14, verse 14. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. Leviticus 14, verse 15. The priest shall also take some of the oil from the cup and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. Leviticus 14, verse 16. Then he shall dip his right finger in the oil in his left hand, and sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the Lord. Leviticus 14, verse 17. The priest shall then put some of the remaining oil on the tip of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and also on the thumb of his right hand, the big toe of his right foot, and on the blood of the trespass offering. Leviticus 14, verse 18. Then the priest shall put the rest of the oil on the head of the one to be cleansed. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. Leviticus 14, verse 19. Afterward, the priest shall offer the sin offering, and by it make atonement for the one to be cleansed. Then he shall kill the whole burnt offering. Leviticus 14, verse 20. The priest shall offer the whole burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar before the Lord. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean. Leviticus 14, verse 21. “But if he is poor and cannot afford it, he shall take one lamb as a choice portion for a trespass offering, along with one-tenth of fine flour mixed with oil and a cup of oil as a grain offering, and Leviticus 14, verse 22. two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford: one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering, to make atonement for him. Leviticus 14, verse 23. He shall bring them to the priest on the eighth day for his cleansing, to the door of the tabernacle of testimony, before the Lord. Leviticus 14, verse 24. The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering and the cup of oil and put them as a deposit before the Lord. Leviticus 14, verse 25. Then the priest shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, then on the thumb of his right hand, and the big toe of his right foot. Leviticus 14, verse 26. The priest shall then pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand, Leviticus 14, verse 27. and sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil in his left hand, seven times before the Lord. Leviticus 14, verse 28. Then the priest shall put some of the oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and also on the thumb of his right hand and the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering. Leviticus 14, verse 29. The rest of the oil in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord. Leviticus 14, verse 30. After this, he shall offer one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, such as he can afford— Leviticus 14, verse 31. one as a sin offering and the other as a whole burnt offering, with the grain offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement for the one to be cleansed before the Lord. Leviticus 14, verse 32. This is the law for one who has a leprous infection, who cannot afford the usual cleansing.”
Laws Concerning Leprous Houses
Leviticus 14, verse 33. Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, Leviticus 14, verse 34. “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I give you as a possession, and I put the leprous infection in a house in the land of your possession, Leviticus 14, verse 35. and he who owns the house comes and tells the priest, saying, ‘It seems to me there is an infection in my house,’ Leviticus 14, verse 36. then before the priest goes into the house to examine the infection, he shall give orders for them to empty the house, that everything in the house may not become unclean. Afterward the priest shall enter the house to examine it. Leviticus 14, verse 37. He shall examine the infection; and indeed, if the plague on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deep in the walls, Leviticus 14, verse 38. then the priest shall go outside the house to the door of the house, and quarantine the house seven days. Leviticus 14, verse 39. After this, the priest shall come again on the seventh day to examine it; and indeed, if the infection has spread on the walls of the house, Leviticus 14, verse 40. then the priest shall give orders to take away the stones with the infection; and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city. Leviticus 14, verse 41. They shall then scrape the house inside and outside, and the dust they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city. Leviticus 14, verse 42. Then they shall take other scraped stones and put them in the place of those stones; and they shall take other mortar and plaster the house. Leviticus 14, verse 43. “Now if the infection comes back and breaks out in the house, after they took away the stones and scraped and plastered the house, Leviticus 14, verse 44. then the priest shall enter the house to examine it; and indeed, if the infection has spread in it, there is an active leprosy in the house. It is unclean. Leviticus 14, verse 45. So they shall break down the house, its stones, timber, and all its plaster, and carry them outside the city to an unclean place. Leviticus 14, verse 46. Moreover, he who goes into the house at all while it is quarantined shall be unclean until evening. Leviticus 14, verse 47. Also the one who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; and the one who eats in the house shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. Leviticus 14, verse 48. “But if the priest enters the house to examine it, and indeed, the infection has not spread at all in the house after it was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce it clean, because the infection is healed. Leviticus 14, verse 49. Then to cleanse the house he shall take two live birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. Leviticus 14, verse 50. And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water; Leviticus 14, verse 51. and 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. Leviticus 14, verse 52. Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, the running water, and the living bird, along with the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the spun scarlet. Leviticus 14, verse 53. Then he shall send away the living bird into a field outside the city and make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean. Leviticus 14, verse 54. “This is the law for any leprous infection and lesion, Leviticus 14, verse 55. and for a leprous garment, a house, Leviticus 14, verse 56. a scar, a mark, and a bright spot, Leviticus 14, verse 57. to determine in which day there is the unclean, and in which day it will be declared clean. This is the law of leprosy.”