Chapter 14
1 The LORD spoke to Moses , saying ,
2 " This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing : He shall be brought to the priest ,
3 and the priest shall go out of the camp . The priest shall examine him . Behold , if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper ,
4 then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds , cedar wood , scarlet , and hyssop.
5 The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water .
6 As for the living bird , he shall take it , the cedar wood , the scarlet , and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water .
7 He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times , and shall pronounce him clean , and shall let the living bird go into the open field .
8 " He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair , and bathe himself in water ; and he shall be clean . After that he shall come into the camp , but shall dwell outside his tent seven days .
9 It shall be on the seventh day , that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows . He shall shave off all his hair . He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water . Then he shall be clean .
10 " On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect , one ewe lamb a year old without defect , three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering , mixed with oil , and one log of oil .
11 The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed , and those things, before the LORD , at the door of the Tent of Meeting .
12 " The priest shall take one of the male lambs , and offer him for a trespass offering , with the log of oil , and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD .
13 He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering , in the place of the sanctuary ; for as the sin offering is the priest ’s, so is the trespass offering . It is most holy .
14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering , and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed , and on the thumb of his right hand , and on the big toe of his right foot .
15 The priest shall take some of the log of oil , and pour it into the palm of his own left hand .
16 The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand , and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD .
17 The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed , and on the thumb of his right hand , and on the big toe of his right foot , upon the blood of the trespass offering .
18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest ’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed , and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD .
19 " The priest shall offer the sin offering , and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness . Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering ;
20 then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar . The priest shall make atonement for him , and he shall be clean .
21 " If he is poor , and can ’t afford so much , then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved , to make atonement for him , and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering , and a log of oil ;
22 and two turtledoves , or two young pigeons , such as he is able to afford ; and the one shall be a sin offering , and the other a burnt offering .
23 " On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest , to the door of the Tent of Meeting , before the LORD .
24 The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering , and the log of oil , and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD .
25 He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering . The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed , and on the thumb of his right hand , and on the big toe of his right foot .
26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand ;
27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD .
28 Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed , and on the thumb of his right hand , and on the big toe of his right foot , on the place of the blood of the trespass offering .
29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest ’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed , to make atonement for him before the LORD .
30 He shall offer one of the turtledoves , or of the young pigeons , which ever he is able to afford ,
31 of the kind he is able to afford , the one for a sin offering , and the other for a burnt offering , with the meal offering . The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the LORD ."
32 This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy , who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing .
33 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying ,
34 " When you have come into the land of Canaan , which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,
35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest , saying, ‘ There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house .’
36 The priest shall command that they empty the house , before the priest goes in to examine the plague , that all that is in the house not be made unclean . Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house .
37 He shall examine the plague ; and behold , if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall ,
38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house , and shut up the house seven days .
39 The priest shall come again on the seventh day , and look . If the plague has spread in the walls of the house ,
40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague , and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city .
41 He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over . They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place .
42 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house .
43 "If the plague comes again , and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house , and after it was plastered ,
44 then the priest shall come in and look ; and behold , if the plague has spread in the house , it is a destructive mildew in the house . It is unclean .
45 He shall break down the house , its stones, and its timber , and all the house ’s mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place .
46 "Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening .
47 He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 " If the priest shall come in , and examine it , and behold , the plague hasn’t spread in the house , after the house was plastered , then the priest shall pronounce the house clean , because the plague is healed .
49 To cleanse the house he shall take two birds , cedar wood , scarlet , and hyssop.
50 He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water .
51 He shall take the cedar wood , the hyssop, the scarlet , and the living bird , and dip them in the blood of the slain bird , and in the running water , and sprinkle the house seven times .
52 He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird , and with the running water , with the living bird , with the cedar wood , with the hyssop, and with the scarlet ;
53 but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field . So shall he make atonement for the house ; and it shall be clean ."
54 This is the law for any plague of leprosy , and for an itch,
55 and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house ,
56 and for a swelling , and for a scab , and for a bright spot;
57 to teach when it is unclean , and when it is clean . This is the law of leprosy .