14:1 The LORD said to Moses,
14:2 “These are the regulations for the diseased person at the time of his ceremonial cleansing, when he is brought to the priest:
14:3 The priest is to go outside the camp and examine him. If the person has been healed of his infectious skin disease,
14:4 the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
14:5 Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over fresh water in a clay pot.
14:6 He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.
14:7 Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the infectious disease and pronounce him clean. Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields.
14:8 “The person to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. After this he may come into the camp, but he must stay outside his tent for seven days.
14:9 On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair; he must shave his head, his beard, his eyebrows and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.
14:10 “On the eighth day he must bring two male lambs and one ewe lamb a year old, each without defect, along with three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil.
14:11 The priest who pronounces him clean shall present both the one to be cleansed and his offerings before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
14:12 “Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil; he shall wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.
14:13 He is to slaughter the lamb in the holy place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
14:14 The priest is to take some of the blood of 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.
14:15 The priest shall then take some of the log of oil, pour it in the palm of his own left hand,
14:16 dip his right forefinger into the oil in his palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of it before the LORD seven times.
14:17 The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm 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.
14:18 The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed and make atonement for him before the LORD.
14:19 “Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering
14:20 and offer it on the altar, together with the grain offering, and make atonement for him, and he will be clean.
14:21 “If, however, he is poor and cannot afford these, he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, together with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, a log of oil,
14:22 and two doves or two young pigeons, which he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
14:23 “On the eighth day he must bring them for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, before the LORD.
14:24 The priest is to take the lamb for the guilt offering, together with the log of oil, and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.
14:25 He shall slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering and take some of its blood 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.
14:26 The priest is to pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,
14:27 and with his right forefinger sprinkle some of the oil from his palm seven times before the LORD.
14:28 Some of the oil in his palm he is to put on the same places he put the blood of the guilt offering–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.
14:29 The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
14:30 Then he shall sacrifice the doves or the young pigeons, which the person can afford,
14:31 one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the one to be cleansed.”
14:32 These are the regulations for anyone who has an infectious skin disease and who cannot afford the regular offerings for his cleansing.
14:33 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
14:34 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in that land,
14:35 the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like mildew in my house.’
14:36 The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.
14:37 He is to examine the mildew on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,
14:38 the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.
14:39 On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls,
14:40 he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town.
14:41 He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the material that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the town.
14:42 Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house.
14:43 “If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered,
14:44 the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.
14:45 It must be torn down–its stones, timbers and all the plaster–and taken out of the town to an unclean place.
14:46 “Anyone who goes into the house while it is closed up will be unclean till evening.
14:47 Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash his clothes.
14:48 “But if the priest comes to examine it and the mildew has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the mildew is gone.
14:49 To purify the house he is to take two birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop.
14:50 He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.
14:51 Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
14:52 He shall purify the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.
14:53 Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”
14:54 These are the regulations for any infectious skin disease, for an itch,
14:55 for mildew in clothing or in a house,
14:56 and for a swelling, a rash or a bright spot,
14:57 to determine when something is clean or unclean. These are the regulations for infectious skin diseases and mildew.
14:1 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
14:2 This shall be the law of the leper on the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest,
14:3 And the priest shall go forth outside the camp. Then the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper,
14:4 Then the priest shall command that two living clean birds and cedar wood and scarlet strands and hyssop be taken for the one who is to be cleansed.
14:5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered in an earthen vessel over running water.
14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it and the cedar wood and the scarlet strands and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the running water.
14:7 And he shall sprinkle it on the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times and shall pronounce him clean. Then he shall let the living bird go into the open field.
14:8 And the one who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but he shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
14:9 And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair; he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. Then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
14:10 And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering mingled with oil and one log of oil.
14:11 And the priest who makes him clean shall set the man to be cleansed and those things before Jehovah at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
14:12 And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and present it as a trespass offering and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah.
14:13 Then he shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where they slaughter the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for the trespass offering, like the sin offering, is the priest’s; it is most holy.
14:14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
14:15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of the priest’s left hand,
14:16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in the palm of his left hand and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah.
14:17 And from the rest of the oil that is in the palm of his hand the priest shall put some on the lobe of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed and some on the thumb of his right hand and some on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
14:18 And the rest of the oil that is in the palm of the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of the one who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make expiation for him before Jehovah.
14:19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering and make expiation for the one who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness, and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering.
14:20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make expiation for him, and he shall be clean.
14:21 But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved to make expiation for him, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil,
14:22 And two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he can afford; and the one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
14:23 And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, before Jehovah.
14:24 Then the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before Jehovah;
14:25 And he shall slaughter the lamb of the trespass offering. Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
14:26 And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of the priest’s left hand,
14:27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in the palm of his left hand seven times before Jehovah.
14:28 And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in the palm of his hand on the lobe of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering.
14:29 And the rest of the oil that is in the palm of the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of the one who is to be cleansed, to make expiation for him before Jehovah.
14:30 And he shall offer one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, such as he can afford,
14:31 Even such as he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering; and the priest shall make expiation for the one who is to be cleansed before Jehovah.
14:32 This is the law for the one in whom there is the infection of leprosy, who cannot afford what is prescribed for his cleansing.
14:33 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
14:34 When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put the infection of leprosy in a house in the land of your possession,
14:35 Then he to whom the house belongs shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seems to me that there is something like an infection in the house.
14:36 And the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the infection, so that everything which is in the house does not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house.
14:37 And he shall look at the infection; and if the infection is on the walls of the house with greenish or reddish depressions, and their appearance is deeper than the surface of the wall,
14:38 Then the priest shall come out of the house to the entrance of the house and shut up the house seven days.
14:39 And the priest shall return on the seventh day and inspect it. And if the infection has spread in the walls of the house,
14:40 Then the priest shall command that they take out the stones on which the infection is and throw them away outside the city into an unclean place.
14:41 And he shall have the house scraped inside all around, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place.
14:42 And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.
14:43 And if the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones and after he has scraped the house and after it has been replastered,
14:44 Then the priest shall come in and look; and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
14:45 And he shall break down the house, its stones and its timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall bring them outside the city into an unclean place.
14:46 Moreover, whoever goes into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
14:47 And whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
14:48 But if on the other hand the priest comes in and looks, and if the infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.
14:49 And he shall take two birds and cedar wood and scarlet strands and hyssop to purify the house,
14:50 And he shall slaughter one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
14:51 And he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet strands and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
14:52 And he shall purify the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet strands.
14:53 And he shall let the living bird go, outside the city into the open field. So he shall make expiation for the house, and it shall be clean.
14:54 This is the law for any kind of infection of leprosy and for a scale
14:55 And for the leprosy of a garment and for a house
14:56 And for a swelling and for an eruption and for a bright spot,
14:57 To teach when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.