Leviticus 14
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 This is the law of the leper: in
whatsoever day he shall have been cleansed, then shall he be brought to the
priest. 3 And the priest shall come
forth out of the camp, and the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague of
the leprosy is removed from the leper.
4 And the priest shall give
directions, and they shall take for him that is cleansed two clean live birds,
and cedar wood, and spun scarlet, and hyssop.
5 And the priest shall give direction,
and they shall kill one bird over an earthen vessel over running water.
6 And as for the living bird he shall
take it, and the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and he
shall dip them and the living bird into the blood of the bird that was slain
over running water. 7 And he shall
sprinkle seven times upon him that was cleansed of his leprosy, and he shall
be clean; and he shall let go the living bird into the field.
8 And the man that has been cleansed
shall wash his garments, and shall shave off all his hair, and shall wash
himself in water, and shall be clean; and after that he shall go into the
camp, and shall remain out of his house seven days.
9 And it shall come to pass on the
seventh day, he shall shave off all his hair, his head and his beard, and his
eye-brows, even all his hair shall he shave; and he shall wash his garments,
and wash his body with water, and shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall
take two lambs without spot of a year old, and one ewe lamb without spot of a
year old, and three-tenths of fine flour for sacrifice kneaded with oil, and
one small cup of oil. 11 And the
priest that cleanses shall present the man under purification, and these
offerings before the Lord, at the door of the
tabernacle of witness. 12 And the
priest shall take one lamb, and offer him for a trespass-offering, and the cup
of oil, and set them apart for a special offering before the Lord.
13 And they shall kill the lamb in
the place where they kill the whole-burnt-offerings, and the sin-offerings, in
the holy places; for it is a sin-offering: as the trespass-offering, it
belongs to the priest, it is most holy.
14 And the priest shall take of the
blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the
right ear of the person under cleansing, and on the thumb of his right hand,
and on the great toe of his right foot.
15 And the priest shall take of the
cup of oil, and shall pour it upon his own left hand.
16 And he shall dip with the finger
of his right hand into some of the oil that is in his
left hand, and he shall sprinkle with his finger seven times before the Lord.
17 And the remaining oil that is in
his hand, the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him that is
under cleansing, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of
his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass-offering.
18 And the remaining oil that is on
the hand of the priest, the priest shall put on the head of the cleansed
leper, and the priest shall make atonement for him
before the Lord. 19 And the priest
shall sacrifice the sin-offering, and the priest shall make atonement for the
person under purification to cleanse him from his
sin, and afterwards the priest shall slay the whole-burnt-offering.
20 And the priest shall offer the
whole-burnt-offering, and the sacrifice upon the altar before the Lord; and
the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be cleansed.
21 And if he should be poor, and
cannot afford so much, he shall take one lamb for his transgression for a
separate-offering, so as to make propitiation for him, and a tenth deal of
fine flour mingled with oil for a sacrifice, and one cup of oil,
22 and two turtle-doves, or two young
pigeons, as he can afford; and the one shall be for a sin-offering, and the
other for a whole-burnt-offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the
eighth day, to purify him, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of
witness before the Lord. 24 And the
priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the cup of oil, and
place them for a set-offering before the Lord.
25 And he shall slay the lamb of the
trespass-offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the
trespass-offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is under
purification, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his
right foot. 26 And the priest shall
pour of the oil on his own left hand.
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with
the finger of his right hand some of the oil that is in his left hand seven
times before the Lord. 28 And the
priest shall put of the oil that is on his hand on the tip of the right ear of
him that is under purification, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the
great toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the
trespass-offering. 29 And that which
is left of the oil which is on the hand of the priest he shall put on the head
of him that is purged, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the
Lord.
30 And he shall offer one of the
turtle-doves or of the young pigeons, as he can afford it,
31 the one for a sin-offering, the
other for a whole-burnt-offering with the meat-offering, and the priest shall
make an atonement before the Lord for him that is under purification.
32 This is the law for him in whom is
the plague of leprosy, and who cannot afford the offerings for his
purification.
33 And the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying, 34 Whensoever ye shall
enter into the land of the Chananites, which I give you for a possession, and
I shall put the plague of leprosy in the houses of the land of your
possession; 35 then the owner of the
house shall come and report to the priest, saying, I have seen as it were a
plague in the house. 36 And the
priest shall give orders to remove the furniture of the house, before the
priest comes in to see the plague, and thus none of
the things in the house shall become unclean; and afterwards the priest shall
go in to examine the house. 37 And he
shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague
is in the walls of the house, he will see greenish or
reddish cavities, and the appearance of them
will be beneath the surface of the walls.
38 And the priest shall come out of
the house to the door of the house, and the priest shall separate the house
seven days. 39 And the priest shall
return on the seventh day and view the house; and, behold,
if the plague is spread in the walls of the house,
40 then the priest shall give orders,
and they shall take away the stones in which the plague is, and shall cast
them out of the city into an unclean place.
41 And they shall scrape the house
within round about, and shall pour out the dust scraped off outside the city
into an unclean place. 42 And they
shall take other scraped stones, and put them in the place of the
former stones, and they shall take other plaster and
plaster the house. 43 And if the
plague should return again, and break out in the house after they have taken
away the stones and after the house is scraped, and after it has been
plastered, 44 then the priest shall
go in and see if the plague is spread in the house: it is a confirmed leprosy
in the house, it is unclean. 45 And
they shall take down the house, and its timbers and its stones, and they shall
carry out all the mortar without the city into an unclean place.
46 And he that goes into the house at
any time, during its separation, shall be unclean until evening.
47 And he that sleeps in the house
shall wash his garments, and be unclean until evening; and he that eats in the
house shall wash his garments, and be unclean until evening.
48 And if the priest shall arrive and
enter and see, and behold the plague be not at all spread in the house after
the house has been plastered, then the priest shall declare the house clean,
because the plague is healed. 49 And
he shall take to purify the house two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and
spun scarlet, and hyssop. 50 And he
shall slay one bird in an earthen vessel over running water.
51 And he shall take the cedar wood,
and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and the living bird; and shall dip it
into the blood of the bird slain over running water, and with them he shall
sprinkle the house seven times.
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 spun scarlet.
53 And he shall let the living bird
go out of the city into the field, and shall make atonement for the house, and
it shall be clean. 54 This
is the law concerning every plague of leprosy and
scurf, 55 and of the leprosy of a
garment, and of a house, 56 and of a
sore, and of a clear spot, and of a shining one,
57 and of declaring in what day it is
unclean, and in what day it shall be purged: this
is the law of the leprosy.