Leviticus 14
14
Cleansing of Skin Diseases
1The Lord spoke to Moses: 2“This is the law # 14:2 Lv 11:46 concerning the person afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing. # 14:2 Lv 12:4–5; Nm 6:9; Ezk 44:26 He is to be brought to the priest, # 14:2 Lv 4:16 3who will go outside the camp # 14:3 Lv 8:17 and examine him. # 14:3 Lv 13:2–3 If the skin disease has disappeared from the afflicted person, # 14:3 Lit the person afflicted with skin disease 4the priest will order that two live clean birds, # 14:4 Gn 40:17 cedar wood, # 14:4 Jdg 9:15; 2Sm 5:11; 7:2,7; 1Kg 5:13; 6:9–10; Ps 29:5; Sg 1:17; 8:9; Am 2:9; Zch 11:1–2 scarlet # 14:4 Ex 25:4; Nm 4:8; 19:6 yarn, and hyssop # 14:4 Ex 12:22 be brought for the one who is to be cleansed. 5Then the priest will order that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot. 6He is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them all into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water. 7He will then sprinkle the blood seven times on the one who is to be cleansed from the skin disease. He is to pronounce him clean and release the live bird over the open countryside. # 14:7 Lv 14:53; 16:21–22 8The one who is to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; he is clean. Afterward he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days. 9He is to shave off all his hair again on the seventh day: his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; he is clean.
10“On the eighth day he must take two unblemished # 14:10 Ex 29:1 male lambs, an unblemished year-old ewe lamb, a grain offering of six quarts # 14:10 Lit three-tenths; probably three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one-third of a quart # 14:10 Lit one log, also in vv. 12,15,21,24 of olive oil. 11The priest who performs the cleansing will place the person who is to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 12The priest is to take one male lamb and present it as a guilt offering, # 14:12 Lv 5:6–19 along with the one-third quart of olive oil, and he will present them as a presentation offering # 14:12 Ex 29:24 before the Lord. 13He is to slaughter the male lamb at the place in the sanctuary area where the sin offering # 14:13 Ex 29:14 and burnt offering # 14:13 Gn 22:2; Lv 3:5; Nm 6:11; Jos 8:31; 1Ch 16:1; Ps 20:3; Mc 6:6 are slaughtered, # 14:13 Lv 1:11; 6:25; 7:2 for like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; # 14:13 Lv 7:7 it is especially holy. # 14:13 Lv 2:3; 6:10; 7:1,6; 10:12; 24:9; 27:28 14The priest is to take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the lobe 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. # 14:14 Ex 29:20; Lv 8:23–24; 14:25,28 15Then the priest will take some of the one-third quart of olive oil and pour it into his left palm. 16The priest will dip his right finger into the oil in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. 17From the oil remaining in his palm the priest will put some on the lobe 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, on top of the blood of the guilt offering. # 14:17 Lv 14:14 18What is left of the oil in the priest’s palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed. In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the Lord. 19The priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. # 14:19 Lv 5:3 Afterward he will slaughter the burnt offering. 20The priest is to offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. The priest will make atonement for him, and he will be clean. # 14:20 Mt 8:1–4; Mk 1:21–44; Lk 5:12–14
21“But if he is poor # 14:21 Am 5:11 and cannot afford these, # 14:21 Lv 5:7–13; 12:8 he is to take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be presented in order to make atonement for him, along with two quarts # 14:21 Lit him, and one-tenth; probably one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, one-third of a quart of olive oil, 22and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whatever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. 23On the eighth day he is to bring these things for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the Lord. 24The priest will take the male lamb for the guilt offering and the one-third quart of olive oil, and present them as a presentation offering before the Lord. 25After he slaughters the male lamb for the guilt offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 26Then the priest will pour some of the oil into his left palm. 27With his right finger the priest will sprinkle some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the Lord. 28The priest will also put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, 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. 29What is left of the oil in the priest’s palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed to make atonement for him before the Lord. # 14:29 Lv 14:18 30He is to then sacrifice one type of what he can afford, either the turtledoves or young pigeons, 31one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, sacrificing what he can afford together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the Lord for the one to be cleansed. 32This is the law for someone who has # 14:32 Lit someone on whom there is a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”
Cleansing of Contaminated Objects
33The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: 34“When you enter the land of Canaan # 14:34 Gn 37:1 that I am giving you as a possession, # 14:34 Gn 17:8; 23:4; 36:43; 47:11; 48:4; 49:30; 50:13; Dt 32:49; Jos 21:12,41 and I place a mildew contamination in a house in the land you possess, # 14:34 Lit land of your possession 35the owner of the house is to come and tell the priest: Something like mildew contamination has appeared # 14:35 Lit appeared to me in my house. 36The priest must order them to clear the house before he enters to examine the contamination, so that nothing in the house becomes unclean. Afterward the priest will come to examine the house. 37He will examine it, and if the contamination in the walls of the house consists of green or red indentations # 14:37 Or eruptions; Hb obscure that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall, 38the priest is to go outside the house to its doorway and quarantine the house for seven days. 39The priest is to return on the seventh day and examine it. If the contamination has spread on the walls of the house, 40the priest must order that the stones with the contamination be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city. 41He is to have the inside of the house completely scraped, and have the plaster # 14:41 Lit dust, also in v. 42 that is scraped off dumped in an unclean place outside the city. 42Then they are to take different stones to replace the former ones and take additional plaster to replaster the house.
43“If the contamination reappears in the house after the stones have been pulled out, and after the house has been scraped and replastered, 44the priest is to come and examine it. If the contamination has spread in the house, it is harmful mildew; the house is unclean. 45It must be torn down with its stones, its beams, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place. 46Whoever enters the house during any of the days the priest quarantines it will be unclean until evening. 47Whoever lies down in the house is to wash his clothes, and whoever eats in it is to wash his clothes.
48“But when the priest comes and examines it, if the contamination has not spread in the house after it was replastered, he is to pronounce the house clean because the contamination has disappeared. # 14:48 Lit healed 49He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house, 50and he is to slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot containing fresh water. 51He will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times. 52He will purify the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn. 53Then he is to release the live bird into the open countryside # 14:53 Lv 14:7 outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
54“This is the law for any skin disease or mildew, for a scaly outbreak, 55for mildew in clothing or on a house, 56and for a swelling, scab, or spot, 57to determine when something is unclean or clean. This is the law regarding skin disease and mildew.”
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Leviticus 14
14
The ceremony for people healed of leprosy
1The LORD told Moses to say to the people:
2-3After you think you are healed of leprosy,#14.2,3 leprosy: See the note at 13.3. you must ask for a priest to come outside the camp and examine you. And if you are well,#Mt 8.4; Mk 1.44; Lk 5.14; 17.14. 4he will order someone to bring out two live birds that are acceptable for sacrifice, together with a stick of cedar wood, a piece of red yarn, and a branch from a hyssop plant. 5The priest will order someone to kill one of the birds over a clay pot of spring water. 6Then he will dip the other bird, the cedar, the red yarn, and the hyssop in the blood of the dead bird. 7Next, he will sprinkle you seven times with the blood and say, “You are now clean.” Finally, he will release the bird and let it fly away.
8After this you must wash your clothes, shave your entire body, and take a bath before you are completely clean. You may move back into camp, but you must not enter your tent for seven days. 9Then you must once again shave your head, face, and eyebrows, as well as the hair on the rest of your body. Finally, wash your clothes and take a bath, and you will be completely clean.
10On the eighth day you must bring to the priest two rams and a year-old female lamb that have nothing wrong with them; also bring a third of a litre of olive oil and three kilogrammes of your finest flour mixed with oil. 11Then the priest will present you and your offerings to me at the entrance to my sacred tent. 12There he will offer one of the rams, together with the one third of a litre of oil, as a sacrifice to make things right.#14.12 sacrifice to make things right: See 7.1-10. He will also lift them up#14.12 lift them up: See the note at 7.29,30. to show that they are dedicated to me. 13This sacrifice is very holy. It belongs to the priest and must be killed in the same place where animals are killed as sacrifices for sins and as sacrifices to please me.#14.13 sacrifices to please me: See the note at 1.1-3.
14The priest will smear some of the blood from this sacrifice on your right ear lobe, some on your right thumb, and some on the big toe of your right foot. 15He will then pour some of the olive oil into the palm of his left hand, 16dip a finger of his right hand into the oil, and sprinkle some of it seven times towards the sacred tent. 17Next, he will smear some of the oil on your right ear lobe, some on your right thumb, and some on the big toe of your right foot, 18-20and pour the rest of the oil from his palm on your head. Then he will offer the other two animals—one as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me, together with a grain sacrifice. After this you will be completely clean.
21If you are poor and cannot afford to offer this much, you may offer a ram as a sacrifice to make things right, together with a third of a litre of olive oil and one kilogramme of flour mixed with oil as a grain sacrifice. The priest will then lift these up#14.21 lift these up: See the note at 7.29,30. to dedicate them to me. 22Depending on what you can afford, you must also offer either two doves or two pigeons, one as a sacrifice for sin and the other as a sacrifice to please me. 23The priest will offer these to me in front of the sacred tent on the eighth day.
24-25The priest will kill this ram for the sacrifice to make things right, and he will lift it up#14.24-25 lift it up: See the note at 7.29,30. with the olive oil in dedication to me. Then he will smear some of the blood on your right ear lobe, some on your right thumb, and some on the big toe of your right foot.
26The priest will pour some of the olive oil into the palm of his left hand, 27then dip a finger of his right hand in the oil and sprinkle some of it seven times towards the sacred tent. 28He will smear some of the oil on your right ear lobe, some on your right thumb, and some on the big toe of your right foot, just as he did with the blood of the sacrifice to make things right. 29-31And he will pour the rest of the oil from his palm on your head.
Then, depending on what you can afford, he will offer either the doves or the pigeons together with the grain sacrifice. One of the birds is the sacrifice for sin, and the other is the sacrifice to please me. After this you will be completely clean.
32These are the things you must do if you have leprosy and cannot afford the usual sacrifices to make you clean.
When mildew is in a house
33The LORD told Moses and Aaron to say to the people:
34After I have given you the land of Canaan as your permanent possession, here is what you must do, if I ever put mildew#14.34 mildew: The Hebrew word translated “mildew” is the same one translated “leprosy” and “spot” in chapter 13. on the walls of any of your homes. 35First, you must say to a priest, “I think mildew is on the wall of my house.”
36The priest will reply, “Empty the house before I inspect it, or else everything in it will be unclean.”
37If the priest discovers greenish or reddish spots that go deeper than the surface of the walls, 38he will have the house closed for seven days. 39Then he will return and check to see if the mildew has spread. 40-41If so, he will order someone to scrape the plaster from the walls, remove the filthy stones, then haul everything off and dump it in an unclean place outside the town. 42Afterwards the wall must be repaired with new stones and fresh plaster.
43If the mildew appears a second time, 44the priest will come and say, “This house is unclean. It's covered with mildew that can't be removed.” 45Then he will have the house torn down and every bit of wood, stone, and plaster hauled off to an unclean place outside the town. 46Meanwhile, if any of you entered the house while it was closed, you will be unclean until evening. 47And if you either slept or ate in the house, you must wash your clothes.
48On the other hand, if the priest discovers that mildew hasn't reappeared after the house was newly plastered, he will say, “This house is clean—the mildew has gone.” 49Then, to show that the house is now clean, he will get two birds, a stick of cedar wood, a piece of red yarn, and a branch from a hyssop plant and bring them to the house. 50He will kill one of the birds over a clay pot of spring water 51-52and let its blood drain into the pot. Then he will dip the cedar, the hyssop, the yarn, and the other bird into the mixture of blood and water. Next, he will sprinkle the house seven times with the mixture, then the house will be completely clean. 53Finally, he will release the bird and let it fly away, ending the ceremony for purifying the house.
54-57These are the things you must do if you discover that you are unclean because of an itch or a sore, or that your clothing or house is unclean because of mildew.
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