Leviticus 14

Cleansing from Skin Diseases

14And the LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H5592"The following instructions are for those seeking ceremonial purification from a skin disease

. Those who have been healed must be brought to the priest,H8451H6879H3117H2893H935H35483who will examine them at a place outside the camp. If the priest finds that someone has been healed of a serious skin disease,H3548H3318H2351H4264H3548H7200H5061H6883H7495H68794he will perform a purification ceremony, using two live birds that are ceremonially clean, a stick of cedar

, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch.H3548H6680H3947H2891H8147H6833H2416H2889H730H6086H8144H8438H2315The priest will order that one bird be slaughtered over a clay pot filled with fresh water.H3548H6680H259H6833H7819H2789H3627H2416H43256He will take the live bird, the cedar stick, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop branch, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.H2416H6833H3947H730H6086H8144H8438H231H2881H2416H6833H1818H6833H7819H2416H43257The priest will then sprinkle the blood of the dead bird seven times on the person being purified of the skin disease. When the priest has purified the person, he will release the live bird in the open field to fly away.H5137H2891H6883H7651H6471H2891H2416H6833H7971H6440H77048"The persons being purified must then wash their clothes, shave off all their hair, and bathe themselves in water. Then they will be ceremonially clean and may return to the camp. However, they must remain outside their tents for seven days.H2891H3526H899H1548H8181H7364H4325H2891H310H935H4264H3427H2351H168H7651H31179On the seventh day they must again shave all the hair from their heads, including the hair of the beard and eyebrows. They must also wash their clothes and bathe themselves in water. Then they will be ceremonially clean.H7637H3117H1548H8181H7218H2206H1354H5869H8181H1548H3526H899H7364H1320H4325H289110"On the eighth day each person being purified must bring two male lambs and a one-year-old female lamb, all with no defects, along with a grain offering of six quarts

of choice flour moistened with olive oil, and a cup of olive oil.H8066H3117H3947H8147H3532H8549H259H3535H1323H8141H8549H7969H6241H5560H4503H1101H8081H259H3849H808111Then the officiating priest will present that person for purification, along with the offerings, before the LORD at the entrance of the Tabernacle

.H3548H2891H5975H376H2891H6440H3068H6607H168H415012The priest will take one of the male lambs and the olive oil and present them as a guilt offering, lifting them up as a special offering before the LORD.H3548H3947H259H3532H7126H817H3849H8081H5130H8573H6440H306813He will then slaughter the male lamb in the sacred area where sin offerings and burnt offerings are slaughtered. As with the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest. It is a most holy offering.H7819H3532H4725H7819H2403H5930H6944H4725H2403H3548H817H6944H694414The priest will then take some of the blood of the guilt offering and apply it to the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified.H3548H3947H1818H817H3548H5414H8571H3233H241H2891H931H3233H3027H931H3233H727215"Then the priest will pour some of the olive oil into the palm of his own left hand.H3548H3947H3849H8081H3332H3709H3548H804216He will dip his right finger into the oil in his palm and sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the LORD.H3548H2881H3233H676H8081H8042H3709H5137H8081H676H7651H6471H6440H306817The priest will then apply some of the oil in his palm over the blood from the guilt offering that is on the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified.H3499H8081H3709H3548H5414H8571H3233H241H2891H931H3233H3027H931H3233H7272H1818H81718The priest will apply the oil remaining in his hand to the head of the person being purified. Through this process, the priest will purify

the person before the LORD.H3498H8081H3548H3709H5414H7218H2891H3548H3722H6440H306819"Then the priest must present the sin offering to purify the person who was cured of the skin disease. After that, the priest will slaughter the burnt offeringH3548H6213H2403H3722H2891H2932H310H7819H593020and offer it on the altar along with the grain offering. Through this process, the priest will purify the person who was healed, and the person will be ceremonially clean.H3548H5927H5930H4503H4196H3548H3722H289121"But anyone who is too poor and cannot afford these offerings may bring one male lamb for a guilt offering, to be lifted up as a special offering for purification. The person must also bring two quarts

of choice flour moistened with olive oil for the grain offering and a cup of olive oil.H1800H3027H5381H3947H259H3532H817H8573H3722H259H6241H5560H1101H8081H4503H3849H808122The offering must also include two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever the person can afford. One of the pair must be used for the sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.H8147H8449H8147H1121H3123H3027H5381H259H2403H259H593023On the eighth day of the purification ceremony, the person being purified must bring the offerings to the priest in the LORD's presence at the entrance of the Tabernacle.H935H8066H3117H2893H3548H6607H168H4150H6440H306824The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering, along with the olive oil, and lift them up as a special offering to the LORD.H3548H3947H3532H817H3849H8081H3548H5130H8573H6440H306825Then the priest will slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering. He will take some of its blood and apply it to the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified.H7819H3532H817H3548H3947H1818H817H5414H8571H3233H241H2891H931H3233H3027H931H3233H727226"The priest will also pour some of the olive oil into the palm of his own left hand.H3548H3332H8081H3709H3548H804227He will dip his right finger into the oil in his palm and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD.H3548H5137H3233H676H8081H8042H3709H7651H6471H6440H306828The priest will then apply some of the oil in his palm over the blood from the guilt offering that is on the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified.H3548H5414H8081H3709H8571H3233H241H2891H931H3233H3027H931H3233H7272H4725H1818H81729The priest will apply the oil remaining in his hand to the head of the person being purified. Through this process, the priest will purify the person before the LORD.H3498H8081H3548H3709H5414H7218H2891H3722H6440H306830"Then the priest will offer the two turtledoves or the two young pigeons, whichever the person can afford.H6213H259H8449H1121H3123H834H3027H538131One of them is for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, to be presented along with the grain offering. Through this process, the priest will purify the person before the LORD.H3027H5381H259H2403H259H5930H4503H3548H3722H2891H6440H306832These are the instructions for purification for those who have recovered from a serious skin disease but who cannot afford to bring the offerings normally required for the ceremony of purification."H8451H5061H6883H3027H5381H2893

Treatment of Contaminated Houses

33Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,H3068H1696H4872H175H55934"When you arrive in Canaan, the land I am giving you as your own possession, I may contaminate some of the houses in your land with mildew

.H935H776H3667H5414H272H5414H5061H6883H1004H776H27235The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, 'It appears that my house has some kind of mildew.'H1004H935H5046H3548H559H7200H5061H100436Before the priest goes in to inspect the house, he must have the house emptied so nothing inside will be pronounced ceremonially unclean.H3548H6680H6437H1004H3548H935H7200H5061H1004H2930H310H3548H935H7200H100437Then the priest will go in and examine the mildew on the walls. If he finds greenish or reddish streaks and the contamination appears to go deeper than the wall's surface,H7200H5061H5061H7023H1004H8258H3422H125H4758H8217H4480H702338the priest will step outside the door and put the house in quarantine for seven days.H3548H3318H1004H6607H1004H5462H1004H7651H311739On the seventh day the priest must return for another inspection. If he finds that the mildew on the walls of the house has spread,H3548H7725H7637H3117H7200H5061H6581H7023H100440the priest must order that the stones from those areas be removed. The contaminated material will then be taken outside the town to an area designated as ceremonially unclean.H3548H6680H2502H68H2004H5061H7993H853H2931H4725H2351H589241Next the inside walls of the entire house must be scraped thoroughly and the scrapings dumped in the unclean place outside the town.H1004H7106H1004H5439H8210H6083H7096H2351H5892H2931H472542Other stones will be brought in to replace the ones that were removed, and the walls will be replastered.H3947H312H68H935H8478H68H3947H312H6083H2902H100443"But if the mildew reappears after all the stones have been replaced and the house has been scraped and replastered,H5061H7725H6524H1004H310H2502H68H310H7096H1004H310H290244the priest must return and inspect the house again. If he finds that the mildew has spread, the walls are clearly contaminated with a serious mildew, and the house is defiled.H3548H935H7200H5061H6581H1004H3992H6883H1004H293145It must be torn down, and all its stones, timbers, and plaster must be carried out of town to the place designated as ceremonially unclean.H5422H1004H68H6086H6083H1004H3318H2351H5892H2931H472546Those who enter the house during the period of quarantine will be ceremonially unclean until evening,H935H1004H3117H5462H2930H615347and all who sleep or eat in the house must wash their clothing.H7901H1004H3526H899H398H1004H3526H89948"But if the priest returns for his inspection and finds that the mildew has not reappeared in the house after the fresh plastering, he will pronounce it clean because the mildew is clearly gone.H3548H935H935H7200H5061H6581H1004H310H1004H2902H3548H1004H2891H5061H749549To purify the house the priest must take two birds, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch.H3947H2398H1004H8147H6833H730H6086H8144H8438H23150He will slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot filled with fresh water.H7819H259H6833H2789H3627H2416H432551He will take the cedar stick, the hyssop branch, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, and dip them into the blood of the slaughtered bird and into the fresh water. Then he will sprinkle the house seven times.H3947H730H6086H231H8144H8438H2416H6833H2881H1818H7819H6833H2416H4325H5137H1004H7651H647152When the priest has purified the house in exactly this way,H2398H1004H1818H6833H2416H4325H2416H6833H730H6086H231H8144H843853he will release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. Through this process, the priest will purify the house, and it will be ceremonially clean.H7971H2416H6833H2351H5892H6440H7704H3722H1004H289154"These are the instructions for dealing with serious skin diseases

, including scabby sores;H8451H5061H6883H542455and mildew

, whether on clothing or in a house;H6883H899H100456and a swelling on the skin, a rash, or discolored skin.H7613H5597H93457This procedure will determine whether a person or object is ceremonially clean or unclean. "These are the instructions regarding skin diseases and mildew."H3384H3117H2931H3117H2889H8451H6883