Leviticus 14
14
Rules for Those With Skin Diseases
1The Lord said to Moses, 2“These are the rules for people who have had a skin disease and have been made well. These rules are for making them clean.
“A priest must look at those who had the skin disease. 3The priest must go to them outside the camp and look to see if the skin disease is healed. 4If they are healthy, the priest will tell them to do these things: They must bring two clean birds that are still alive, a piece of cedar wood, a piece of red cloth, and a hyssop plant. 5Then the priest must order one bird to be killed in a clay bowl over running water. 6He must take the other bird that is still alive and the piece of cedar wood, the piece of red cloth, and the hyssop plant and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. 7He must sprinkle the blood seven times on those who had the skin disease. Then he must announce that they are clean. After that the priest must go to an open field and let the living bird go free.
8“The people going through this purification ceremony must wash their clothes, shave off all their hair, and wash with water. Then they will be clean. They may then go into the camp, but they must stay outside their tent for seven days. 9On the seventh day, they must shave off all their hair. They must shave their head, their beard, and their eyebrows—yes, all their hair. Then they must wash their clothes and bathe their bodies in water. Then they will be clean.
10“On the eighth day, anyone who had a skin disease must take two male lambs that have nothing wrong with them and a one-year-old female lamb that has nothing wrong with it. They must also take 24 cups#14:10 24 cups Literally, “3/10,” probably meaning 3/10 of an ephah (6.6 l). of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and 2/3 of a pint#14:10 2/3 of a pint Literally, “1 log” (.3 l). Also in verse 21. of olive oil. 11The priest must bring that person and those sacrifices before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent. (This must be the same priest who announced that the person is clean.) 12The priest will take one of the lambs and the oil as a guilt offering. He will lift them in front of the Lord to show they were presented to God. 13Then the priest will kill the male lamb in the holy place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest. It is very holy.
14“The priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering. He will put some of this blood on the tip of the right ear of the person to be made clean. The priest will put some of this blood on the thumb of the right hand and on the big toe of the right foot of that person. 15The priest will also take some of the oil and pour it into his own left palm. 16Then the priest will dip the finger of his right hand into the oil that is in his left palm. He will use his finger to sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the Lord. 17Then he will put some of the oil that is in his palm on the person to be made clean. He will put that oil on the same places he put the blood of the guilt offering. The priest will put some of the oil on the tip of the person’s right ear, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the person’s right foot. 18He will put the oil that is left in his palm on the head of the person to be made clean. In this way he will make that person pure before the Lord.
19“Then the priest must offer the sin offering to make that person pure. After that he will kill the animal for the burnt offering. 20He will then offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. In this way the priest will make that person pure, and that person will become clean.
21“A poor person might not be able to afford all these offerings. So that poor person can use one male lamb as a guilt offering. It will be presented to God so that the priest can make that person pure. The poor person must take 8 cups#14:21 8 cups Literally, “1/10 of an ephah” (2.2 l). of fine flour mixed with oil. This flour will be used for a grain offering. The poor person must also take 2/3 of a pint of olive oil 22and two doves or two young pigeons. Even poor people can afford these things. One bird will be a sin offering, and the other will be a burnt offering.
23“On the eighth day, that person will bring these things to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent. These things will be offered before the Lord so that the person can become clean. 24The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the oil, and he will lift them up to show they were offered before the Lord. 25Then he will kill the lamb of the guilt offering, take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of the person to be made clean. The priest will put some of this blood on the thumb of the right hand and on the big toe of the right foot of this person. 26He will also pour some of this oil into his own left palm. 27He will use the finger of his right hand to sprinkle some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before the Lord. 28Then he will put some of the oil that is in his palm on the same places he put the blood from the guilt offering. He will put some of the oil on the tip of the right ear of the person to be made clean. The priest will put some of the oil on the thumb of the right hand and on the big toe of the person’s right foot. 29He will put the oil that is left in his palm on the head of the person to be made clean. In this way he will make that person pure before the Lord.
30“Then the priest must offer one of the doves or young pigeons. (He must offer whichever the person can afford.) 31He must offer one of these birds as a sin offering and the other bird as a burnt offering. He must offer the birds with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make that person pure before the Lord, and that person will become clean.”
32These are the rules for making people clean after they become well from a skin disease. These are the rules for those who cannot afford the regular sacrifices for becoming clean.
Rules for Mildew in a House
33The Lord also said to Moses and Aaron, 34“I am giving the land of Canaan to your people. Your people will enter that land. At that time I might cause mildew to grow in someone’s house. 35The person who owns that house must come and tell the priest, ‘I see something like mildew in my house.’
36“Then the priest must order the people to take everything out of the house before he goes in to look at the mildew. Then the priest will not have to say everything in the house is unclean. After the people have taken everything out of the house, the priest will go in to look at the house. 37He will look at the mildew. If the mildew on the walls of the house has holes that are a green or red color, and if the mildew goes into the wall’s surface, 38he must go out of the house and lock the house for seven days.
39“On the seventh day the priest must come back and check the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls of the house, 40then he must order the people to tear out the stones with the mildew on them and throw them away. They must put these stones at a special unclean place outside the city. 41Then the priest must have the entire house scraped inside. The people must throw away the plaster that was scraped off the walls. They must put that plaster at a special unclean place outside the city. 42Then new stones must be put in the walls, and the walls must be covered with new plaster.
43“Maybe someone took away the old stones and plaster and put in new stones and plaster. And maybe mildew again appears in that house. 44Then the priest must come in and check the house. If the infection has spread in the house, it is a disease that spreads quickly to other places. So the house is unclean. 45The house must be torn down. All the stones, plaster, and pieces of wood must be taken to the special unclean place outside the city. 46Anyone who goes into that house will be unclean until evening. 47Anyone who eats in that house or lies down in there must wash their clothes.
48“After new stones and plaster are put in a house, the priest must check the house. If the mildew has not spread through the house, the priest will announce that the house is clean, because the mildew is gone.
49“Then, to make the house clean, the priest must take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a piece of red cloth, and a hyssop plant. 50He will kill one bird in a clay bowl over running water. 51Then he will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the piece of red cloth, and the living bird and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed over running water. Then he will sprinkle that blood on the house seven times. 52In this way he will use these things to make the house clean. 53He will go to an open field outside the city and let the living bird go free. In this way the priest will make the house pure. The house will be clean.”
54These are the rules for any infection of leprosy, 55for mildew on pieces of cloth or in a house. 56These are the rules for swellings, rashes, or bright spots on the skin. 57These rules teach when something is clean and when something is unclean. These are the rules about these kinds of disease.
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Leviticus 14
14
Instructions for Cleansing Infectious Skin Diseases
1Then#Or “And” Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2“This is the regulation of the person afflicted with a skin disease at the time of#Or “on the day of” his cleansing. And he shall be brought to the priest, 3and the priest shall go outside the camp,#Literally “to from an outside place of the camp” and the priest shall examine him,#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation and if#Literally “look” or “behold” the skin disease’s infection is healed on#Hebrew “from” the afflicted person, 4then#Or “and” the priest shall command, and he shall take two living, clean birds and cedar wood#Literally “wood of cedar” and a crimson thread#Literally “crimson thread of the worm” and hyssop for the one who presents himself for cleansing. 5Then#Or “And” the priest shall command someone#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation to slaughter one bird over fresh water in a clay vessel. 6He must take the living bird and the cedar wood#Literally “wood of cedar” and the crimson thread#Literally “the crimson thread of the worm” and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird in the bird’s blood slaughtered over the fresh water. 7And he shall spatter the blood#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation seven times on the one who presents himself for cleansing from the infectious skin disease, and he shall declare him clean, and he shall send the living bird into the open field.#Literally “toward the faces of the field” 8Then#Or “And” the one who presents himself for cleansing shall wash his garments, and he shall shave off all his hair, and he shall wash himself in the water; thus#Or “and” he shall be clean, and afterward he shall enter the camp, but#Or “and” he shall stay outside his tent#Literally “from an outside place of his tent” for seven days. 9And then#Literally “And it shall be” on the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—he must shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows#Literally “the rims of his eyes” and all the rest#Implied by context of his hair—and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body in the water; thus#Or “and” he shall be clean.
10“And on the eighth day he must take two male lambs without defect and one ewe-lamb in its first year#Literally “a daughter of her year” without defect and three-tenths of an ephah#Implied by context of finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering and one log of oil. 11And the priest who cleanses him#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation shall present the man who presents himself for cleansing and these things#Literally “with them” before#Literally “to the faces of” the tent of assembly’s entrance. 12Then#Or “And” the priest shall take the one male lamb, and he shall present it as a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and he shall wave them as a wave offering before#Literally “to the faces of” Yahweh. 13And he shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering in the sanctuary’s space,#Or “place” or “area” because as the sin offering belongs to the priest, so also the guilt offering—it is a most holy thing.#Literally “a holiness of holinesses is it” 14And the priest shall take some of#Literally “from” the guilt offering’s blood, and the priest shall put it#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation on the right ear’s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe. 15And the priest shall take some of#Literally “from” the log of oil, and he shall pour it#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation on his#Hebrew “the priest’s” left palm; 16and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is on his left palm, and he shall spatter some of#Literally “from” the oil with his finger seven times before#Literally “to the faces of” Yahweh. 17Then#Or “And” the priest shall put some of#Literally “from” the remaining oil, which is on his palm, on the right ear’s lobe of the one to be cleansed and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe, on top of the guilt offering’s blood.#See v. 14 18And the remaining oil that is on the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one who presents himself for cleansing, and the priest shall make atonement for him before#Literally “to the faces of” Yahweh. 19Thus#Or “And” the priest shall sacrifice#Literally “do” or “make” the sin offering, and he shall make atonement for the one who presents himself for cleansing from his uncleanness, and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering. 20Then#Or “And” the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar, and the priest shall make atonement for him, and so he shall be clean.
21“But#Or “And” if he is poor and he cannot afford#Literally “his hand is not producing” it,#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation then#Or “and” he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering as a wave offering to make atonement for himself and one-tenth of an ephah#Implied by context of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil, 22and two turtledoves or two young doves#Literally “sons of dove” that he can afford,#Literally “his hand can produce” and one shall be a sin offering and the other#Literally “one” a burnt offering. 23And he shall bring them to the priest at the tent of assembly’s entrance before#Literally “to the faces of” Yahweh on the eighth day for his cleansing. 24And the priest shall take the male lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before#Literally “to the faces of” Yahweh; 25and he shall slaughter the male lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take some of#Literally “from” the guilt offering’s blood, and he shall put it#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation on the right ear’s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe. 26Then#Or “And” the priest shall pour out some of#Literally “from” the oil on his own#Hebrew “the priest’s” left palm, 27and with his right finger the priest shall spatter some of#Literally “from” the oil that is on his left palm seven times before#Literally “to the faces of” Yahweh. 28Then#Or “And” the priest shall put some of#Literally “from” the oil that is on his palm on the right ear’s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe on the place of the guilt offering’s blood. 29And the remaining oil that is on the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one who presents himself for cleansing to make atonement for him before#Literally “to the faces of” Yahweh. 30And he shall sacrifice#Literally “do” or “make” one of the turtledoves or the young doves#Literally “sons of dove” that he can afford,#Literally “his hand can produce” 31even#Implied by context what he can afford,#Literally “his hand can produce” the one as a sin offering and the other#Literally “one” as a burnt offering in addition to the grain offering, and the priest shall make atonement for the one who presents himself for cleansing before#Literally “to the faces of” Yahweh. 32This is the regulation of the one on whom is an infectious skin disease who cannot afford#Literally “his hand cannot produce” the cost#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation for his cleansing.”
Instructions for Cleansing Houses
33Then#Or “And” Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 34“When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am about to give to you as your possession, and I put mildew#Literally “an infection of skin disease” in a house in the land of your possession, 35then#Or “and” the one who owns the house#Literally “the house is for him” shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘It appears to me that an infection is in the house.’ 36And the priest shall issue a command, and they shall clear out the house before the priest comes to examine the infection, so that#Or “and” all that is in the house might not become unclean; and afterward#Literally “after thus” the priest shall go to examine the house. 37And he shall examine the infection, and if#Literally “look” or “behold” the infection on the house’s wall has yellowish-green or reddish spots and its appearance is deeper than the surface of#Implied by the context the wall, 38then#Or “and” the priest shall go out from the house to the house’s entrance, and he shall confine#Or “close up” the house for seven days. 39And the priest shall return on the seventh day, and he shall examine the infection,#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation and if#Literally “look” or “behold” the infection has spread on the house’s wall, 40the priest shall issue a command and they shall remove the stones on which is the infection, and they shall throw them outside the city#Literally “to from an outside place of the city” on an unclean place. 41Then#Or “And” they#Hebrew “he” shall scrape off the plaster#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation from all around the house, and they shall pour out the plaster,#See HALOT 862 s.v. 3.b which they scraped off, outside the city#Literally “to from an outside place of the city” on an unclean place. 42And they shall take other stones, and they shall put#Literally “bring” them in place of those stones, and they#Hebrew “he” shall take other plaster,#See HALOT 862 s.v. 3.b and they#Hebrew “he” shall replaster#Implied by the context; Hebrew “plaster” the house.
43“But#Or “And” if the infection should return and it breaks out in the house after they#Hebrew “he” have removed the stones and after scraping off the plaster#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation of the house and after it has been replastered,#Implied by the context; or “plaster” 44then#Or “and” the priest shall come, and he shall examine the infection,#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation and if#Literally “look” or “behold” the infection has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew#Literally “infectious disease” in the house—it is unclean. 45So#Or “And” he shall break down the house, its stones and its wood and all of the house’s plaster,#See HALOT 862 s.v. 3.b and he shall bring it all#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation outside the city#Literally “to from an outside place of the city” to an unclean place. 46And the person who enters into the house during all the days that he#That is, the priest confined#Or “closed up” it shall become unclean until the evening. 47And the person who sleeps in the house must wash his garments, and the person who eats in the house shall wash his garments.
48“And if the priest comes again and examines the house#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation and if#Literally “look” or “behold” the infection has not spread in the house after being replastered,#Implied by the context; or “plaster” then#Or “and” the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the infection is healed. 49And he shall take two birds and cedar wood#Literally “wood of cedar” and a crimson thread#Literally “crimson thread of the worm” and hyssop to cleanse the house; 50and he shall slaughter the first bird over fresh water on a clay vessel. 51Then#Or “And” he shall take the cedar wood#Literally “wood of cedar” and the hyssop and the crimson thread#Literally “the crimson thread of the worm” and the living bird, and he shall dip them in the slaughtered bird’s blood and in the fresh water, and he shall spatter them#The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation on the house seven times. 52Thus#Or “And” he shall purify the house with the bird’s blood and with the fresh water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood#Literally “wood of cedar” and with the hyssop and with the crimson thread.#Literally “the crimson thread of the worm” 53And he shall send the living bird outside the city#Literally “to from an outside place of the city” into the open field;#Literally “to the faces of the field” and so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
54“This is the instruction for any infectious skin disease and for the diseased area of skin, 55and for a mildew#Literally “infectious skin disease” of the garment and for the house, 56and for the swelling and for the epidermal eruption and for the spot, 57to teach when something is unclean and when something is clean.#Literally “on the day of the unclean and on the day of the clean” This is the regulation of the infectious skin disease.”
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