Leviticus 14

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses,

2 “This will be the law for the diseased person on the day of his cleansing. He must be brought to the priest.

This is the law of the leper on the day when he is made clean: he is to be taken to the priest;

3 The priest will go out of the camp to examine the person to see if the infectious skin disease is healed.

And the priest is to go outside the tent-circle; and if, after looking, the priest sees that the mark of the disease has gone from him,

4 Then the priest will command that the one to be cleansed must take two live, clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.

Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop.

5 The priest will command him to kill one of the birds over fresh water that is in a clay pot.

And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water.

6 The priest will then take the live bird and the cedar wood, and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and he will dip all these things, including the live bird, in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.

And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water.

7 Then the priest will sprinkle this water seven times onto the person who is to be cleansed from the disease, and then the priest will pronounce him to be clean. Then the priest will release the living bird into the open fields.

And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country.

8 The person who is being cleansed will wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and then he will be clean. After that he must come into the camp, but he will live outside his tent for seven days.

And he who is to be made clean will have his clothing washed and his hair cut and have a bath, and he will be clean. And after that he will come back to the tent-circle; but he is to keep outside his tent for seven days.

9 On the seventh day he must shave all his hair off his head, and he must also shave off his beard and eyebrows. He must shave off all his hair, and he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water; then he will be clean.

And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes — all his hair is to be cut off — and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean.

10 On the eighth day he must take two male lambs without blemish, one female lamb a year old without blemish, and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one log of oil.

And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.

11 The priest who cleanses him will stand the person who is to be cleansed, along with those things, before Yahweh at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

And the priest who is making him clean will put the man who is being made clean, together with these things, before the door of the Tent of meeting.

12 The priest will take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, together with the log of oil; he will wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

And the priest is to take one of the male lambs and give it as an offering for wrongdoing, and the log of oil, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord;

13 He must kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offerings and the burnt offerings, in the area of the tabernacle, for the sin offering belongs to the priest, as does the guilt offering, because it is most holy.

And he is to put the male lamb to death in the place where they put to death the sin-offering and the burned offering, in the holy place; for as the sin-offering is the property of the priest, so is the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy.

14 The priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the person who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

And let the priest take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot;

15 Then the priest will take oil from the log and pour it into the palm of his own left hand,

And take some of the oil and put it in the hollow of his left hand;

16 and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.

And let the priest put his right finger in the oil which is in his left hand, shaking it out with his finger seven times before the Lord;

17 The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the person to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. He must put this oil on top of the blood from the guilt offering.

And of the rest of the oil which is in his hand, the priest will put some on the point of the right ear of the man who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, over the blood of the offering for wrongdoing;

18 As for the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand, he will put it on the head of the person who is to be cleansed, and the priest will make atonement for him before Yahweh.

And the rest of the oil in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean; and so the priest will make him free from sin before the Lord.

19 Then the priest will offer the sin offering and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness, and afterward he will kill the burnt offering.

And the priest will give the sin-offering, and take away the sin of him who is to be made clean from his unclean condition; and after that he will put the burned offering to death.

20 Then the priest will offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. The priest will make atonement for the person, and then he will be clean.

And the priest is to have the burned offering and the meal offering burned on the altar; and the priest will take away his sin and he will be clean.

21 However, if the person is poor and cannot afford these sacrifices, then he may take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for himself, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil,

And if he is poor and not able to get so much, then he may take one male lamb as an offering for wrongdoing, to be waved to take away his sin, and one tenth part of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;

22 together with two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; one bird will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

And two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and one will be for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering.

23 On the eighth day he must bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting, before Yahweh.

And on the eighth day he will take them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, so that he may be made clean.

24 The priest will take the lamb for an offering, and he will take with it the log of olive oil, and he will lift them high as he presents them to Yahweh.

And the priest will take the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the oil, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord;

25 He will kill the lamb for the guilt offering, and he will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

And he will put to death the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the priest will take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot;

26 Then the priest will pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,

And the priest will put out some of the oil in the hollow of his left hand,

27 and he will sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh.

Shaking out drops of oil with his right finger before the Lord seven times:

28 The priest will then put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, the same places where he put the blood of the guilt offering.

And the priest will put some of the oil which is in his hand on the point of the ear of the man who is to be made clean and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place where the blood of the offering for wrongdoing was put;

29 He will put the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the head of the one who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh.

And the rest of the oil which is in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean, to take away his sin before the Lord.

30 He must offer one of the doves or young pigeons, such as the person has been able to get—

And he will make an offering of one of the doves or the young pigeons, such as he is able to get;

31 one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. Then the priest will make atonement for the one who is to be cleansed before Yahweh.

And of these, he will give one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering, with the meal offering; and the priest will take away the sin of him who is to be made clean before the Lord.

32 This is the law for a person in whom there is an infectious skin disease, who is not able to afford the standard offerings for his cleansing.”

This is the law for the man who has the disease of the leper on him, and who is not able to get that which is necessary for making himself clean.

33 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

34 “When you have come into the land of Canaan which I gave to you as a possession, and if I put mildew that spreads in a house in the land of your possession,

When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage,

35 then he who owns the house must come and tell the priest. He must say, 'There seems to me to be something like mildew in my house.'

Then let the owner of the house come and say to the priest, It seems to me that there is a sort of leper's disease in the house.

36 Then the priest will command that they empty the house before he goes in to see the evidence of mildew, so that nothing in the house will be made unclean. Afterward the priest must go in to see the house.

And the priest will give orders for everything to be taken out of the house, before he goes in to see the disease, so that the things in the house may not become unclean; and then the priest is to go in to see the house;

37 He must examine the mildew to see if it is in the house walls, and to see whether it appears greenish or reddish in the depressions in the wall's surface.

And if he sees that the walls of the house are marked with hollows of green and red, and if it seems to go deeper than the face of the wall;

38 If the house does have mildew, then the priest will go out of the house and shut the door to the house for seven days.

Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days:

39 Then the priest will return again on the seventh day and examine it to see if the mildew has spread in the walls of the house.

And the priest is to come again on the seventh day and have a look and see if the marks on the walls of the house are increased in size;

40 If it has, then the priest will command that they take out the stones in which the mildew has been found and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.

Then the priest will give orders to them to take out the stones in which the disease is seen, and put them out into an unclean place outside the town:

41 He will require all the inside walls of the house to be scraped, and they must take the contaminated material that is scraped off outside the city and dump it into the unclean place.

And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town:

42 They must take other stones and put them in the place of the stones that were removed, and they must use new clay to plaster the house.

And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house.

43 If mildew comes again and breaks out in the house in which the stones have been taken away and the walls have been scraped and then replastered,

And if the disease comes out again in the house after he has taken out the stones and after the walls have been rubbed and the new paste put on,

44 then the priest must come in and examine the house to see if mildew has spread in the house. If it has, then it is harmful mildew, and the house is unclean.

Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean.

45 The house must be torn down. The stones, timber, and all the plaster in the house must be carried away out of the city to the unclean place.

And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

46 In addition, whoever goes into the house during the time it is closed up will be unclean until evening.

And, in addition, anyone who goes into the house at any time, while it is shut up, will be unclean till evening.

47 Anyone who slept in the house must wash his clothes, and anyone who ate in the house must wash his clothes.

And anyone who has been sleeping in the house will have to have his clothing washed; and anyone who takes food in that house will have to have his clothing washed.

48 If the priest enters the house to examine it to see whether the mildew has spread in the house after the house was plastered, then, if the mildew is gone, he will pronounce the house clean.

And if the priest comes in, and sees that the disease is not increased after the new paste has been put on the house, then the priest will say that the house is clean, because the disease is gone.

49 Then the priest must take two birds to cleanse the house, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop.

And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop;

50 He will kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay jar.

And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water;

51 He will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the killed bird, into the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times.

52 He will cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water, with the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.

And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread.

53 But he will let the live bird go out of the city into the open fields. In this way he must make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

But he will let the living bird go out of the town into the open country; so he will take away sin from the house and it will be clean.

54 This is the law for all types of infectious skin disease and things that cause such disease, and for an itch,

This is the law for all signs of the leper's disease and for skin diseases;

55 and for mildew in clothing and in a house,

And for signs of disease in clothing, or in a house;

56 for swelling, for a rash, and for a bright spot,

And for a growth or a bad place or a bright mark on the skin;

57 to determine when any of these cases is unclean or when it is clean. This is the law for infectious skin diseases and mildew.”

To make clear when it is unclean and when it is clean: this is the law about the disease of the leper.