Leviticus 14

CLV(i) 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. 2 This shall come to be the law of the leprous man in the day of his cleansing; when the matter is brought before the priest, 3 then the priest will go forth outside the camp. When the priest examines, and behold, the contagion of leprous disease is healed in the leprous man, 4 then the priest will instruct that they take for the one cleansing himself two living clean birds and cedar wood, double-dipped crimson yarn and hyssop. 5 The priest will instruct that they slay one bird in an earthenware vessel over live water. 6 Then he shall take the living bird, it and the cedar wood, the double-dipped crimson yarn and the hyssop, and he will dip them and the living bird into the blood of the bird slain over the live water. 7 Then he will spatter it seven times on the one cleansing himself from the leprous disease, and pronounce him clean. He will send the living bird free over the surface of the field. 8 The one cleansing himself will rinse his garments and shave off all his hair and wash in water; then he will be clean. Afterward he may come into the camp, yet he will dwell outside his tent seven days. 9 Then it will come to be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair shall he shave off; when he has rinsed his garments and bathed his flesh in water, then he will be clean. 10 On the eighth day he shall take two flawless he-lambs, and one flawless ewe lamb, a year old, three tenths of an ephah of flour, an approach present mingled with oil, and one log of oil. 11 The priest pronouncing the man clean will cause them and the one cleansing himself to stand before Yahweh at the opening of the tent of appointment. 12 Then the priest will take one he-lamb and bring it near as a guilt offering with the log of oil and wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh. 13 He will slay the he-lamb in the place where he slays the sin offering and the ascent offering in the holy place, for like the sin offering, the guilt offering, it is for the priest; it is a holy of holies. 14 The priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest will put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one cleansing himself, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 15 Then the priest will take some of the log of oil and pour it on the priest's left palm. 16 The priest will dip his right finger into the oil which is on his left palm and spatter some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh. 17 Some of the oil which is left on his palm the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of the one cleansing himself, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, over the blood of the guilt offering. 18 And the rest of the oil which is on the palm of the priest shall he put on the head of the one cleansing himself. Thus the priest will make a propitiatory shelter over him before Yahweh. 19 Then the priest will make the sin offering, make a propitiatory shelter over the one cleansing himself from his uncleanness, and afterward slay the ascent offering. 20 The priest will bring up the ascent offering and the approach present on the altar before Yahweh. When the priest makes a propitiatory shelter over him, then he will be clean. 21 If he is poor and his hand cannot afford it then he will take one he-lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make a propitiatory shelter over him, one tenth of an ephah of flour mingled with oil for an approach present, a log of oil, 22 and two turtledoves or two dove squabs whichever his hand can afford. One will come to be a sin offering and the other an ascent offering. 23 He will bring them on the eighth day, for his cleansing, to the priest at the opening of the tent of appointment before Yahweh. 24 And the priest will take the he-lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest will wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh. 25 Then he will slay the he-lamb of the guilt offering; the priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one cleansing himself, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 26 Some of the oil the priest shall pour on the priest's left palm; 27 and the priest will spatter with his right finger some of the oil which is on his left palm seven times before Yahweh. 28 Then the priest will put some of the oil which is on his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one cleansing himself, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot on the same place as the blood of the guilt offering. 29 And the rest of the oil which is on the palm of the priest he shall put on the head of the one cleansing himself to make a propitiatory shelter over him before Yahweh. 30 He will offer one of the turtledoves or of the dove squabs from whichever his hand can afford. 31 Of that which his hand can afford the one is for a sin offering and the other for an ascent offering along with the approach present. Thus the priest will make a propitiatory shelter over the one cleansing himself before Yahweh. 32 This is the law for one in whom is the contagion of leprous disease whose hand cannot afford more for his cleansing. 33 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying. 34 When you come to the land of Canaan which I am giving to you for a holding and I put the contagion of leprous mold in a house of the land of your holding, 35 then he to whom the house belongs will come and tell the priest, saying:Something that appears to me like the contagion is in the house. 36 The priest will instruct that they clear out the house ere the priest comes to examine the contagion, so that all which is in the house shall not be unclean. Afterward the priest shall come to examine the house. 37 He will examine the contagion, and behold, if the contagion in the sidewalls of the house has greenish or reddish concavities and their appearance is lower than the sidewall, 38 the priest will go forth from the house to the opening of the house, and he will lock the house seven days. 39 When the priest returns on the seventh day and examines, and behold, if the contagion has diffused in the sidewalls of the house, 40 then the priest will instruct that they pull off the stones which have the contagion in them and fling them outside the city into an unclean place. 41 They shall also scrape off the house inside round about, and they will pour out the plaster soil which they have scraped off outside the city into an unclean place. 42 Then they will take other stones and insert them instead of the stones, and other soil shall they take and plaster the house. 43 Now if the contagion should return and bud in the house after one pulled off the stones, after scraping off the house and after it is plastered, 44 then the priest will come and examine, and behold, if the contagion has diffused in the house, it is a festering leprous mold in the house; it is unclean. 45 Hence they will tear down the house, its stones and its timbers and all the plaster soil of the house, and will bring them forth outside the city to an unclean place. 46 Anyone entering the house all the days while they locked it, shall be unclean until the evening;" 47 and anyone lying in the house shall rinse his garments; also anyone eating in the house shall rinse his garments. 48 Yet if the priest should come, yea come and examine, and behold, if the contagion has not diffused in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest will pronounce the house clean, for the contagion is mended. 49 To expiate the house he will take two birds, also cedar wood, double-dipped crimson yarn and hyssop. 50 He will slay one bird in an earthenware vessel over live water; 51 and he will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the double-dipped crimson yarn and the living bird and dip them into the blood of the slain bird and in the live water and spatter it on the house seven times. 52 Thus he will expiate the house with the blood of the bird, with the live water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop and with the double-dipped crimson yarn. 53 Then he will send the living bird free outside the city over the surface of the field and make a propitiatory shelter over the house; then it will be clean. 54 This is the law for every contagion of leprous disease and for the scall; 55 for leprous mold in a garment and on a house; 56 for a nodule, for scurf and for blotches, 57 to direct about the day of the unclean and about the day of the clean. This is the law of leprous disease.