Leviticus 14

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

²This is the rite for a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall be brought to the priest,

³who, departing from the camp, when he has found the leprosy to be cleansed,

⁴shall instruct him who is to be purified to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and vermillion, and hyssop.

⁵And he shall order that one of the sparrows be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters.

⁶But the other living one, with the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, he shall dip in the blood of the immolated sparrow.

⁷And he shall sprinkle him who is to be cleansed seven times, so that he may be purified justly. And he shall release the living sparrow, so that it may fly away into the field.

⁸And when the man will have washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair from his body, and he shall be washed with water. And having been purified, he shall enter into the camp, only to this extent: that he may remain outside his own tent for seven days.

⁹And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows, as well as the hair of his entire body. And having washed his clothes again, and his body,

¹⁰on the eighth day, he shall take two immaculate lambs, and a one-year-old female sheep without blemish, and three tenths of fine wheat flour, which has been sprinkled with oil, as a sacrifice, and separately, one twelfth hin of oil.

¹¹And when the priest purifying the man has presented him and all these things in the sight of the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony,

¹²he shall take a lamb and offer it for transgression, with the twelfth hin of oil. And having offered all these before the Lord,

¹³he shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is usually immolated with the holocaust, that is, in the holy place. For just as with the one for sin, so also the victim for transgression belongs to the priest. It is the Holy of holies.

¹⁴And taking some of the blood of the victim, which was immolated for transgression, the priest shall place it upon the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and likewise the foot.

¹⁵And he shall send some of the twelfth hin of oil into his own left hand,

¹⁶and he shall dip his right finger in it, and he shall sprinkle it in the sight of the Lord seven times.

¹⁷But the oil which remains in his left hand, he shall pour over the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand as well as the foot, and upon the blood which was shed for transgression,

¹⁸and upon his head.

¹⁹And he shall pray for him in the sight of the Lord, and he shall accomplish the sacrifice on behalf of sin. Then he shall immolate the holocaust,

²⁰and place it upon the altar with its libations, and the man will be duly cleansed.

²¹But if he is poor, and his hand is not able to find what has been said, he shall take a lamb as an offering for transgression, so that the priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of fine wheat flour sprinkled with oil, as a sacrifice, and a twelfth hin of oil,

²²and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other as a holocaust.

²³And he shall offer them on the eighth day of his purification to the priest at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony in the sight of the Lord.

²⁴And he, receiving the lamb for transgression, and the twelfth hin of oil, shall lift them up together.

²⁵And when the lamb has been immolated, he shall place some of its blood upon the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, as well as the foot.

²⁶Yet truly, he shall send part of the oil into his own left hand,

²⁷and dipping the finger of his right hand in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord.

²⁸And he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, and the thumb of his right hand, as well as the foot, in the place of the blood which was shed for transgression.

²⁹But the remaining part of the oil which is in his left hand, he shall send upon the head of the one being purified, to appease the Lord on his behalf.

³⁰And he shall offer a turtledove or a young pigeon,

³¹one for transgression, and the other as a holocaust, with their libations.

³²This is the sacrifice of a leper, who is not able to obtain all of the things concerning his cleansing.

³³And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

³⁴When you will have entered into the land of Canaan, which I will give to you as a possession, if there is the mark of leprosy in a building,

³⁵he whose house it is shall go and report to the priest, saying: “It seems to me that the mark of leprosy is in my house.”

³⁶And he shall instruct them to carry all things out of the house, before he would enter it and see whether it is leprosy, lest all that is in the house become unclean. And after this, he shall enter to examine the leprosy of the house.

³⁷And when he will have seen in its walls something like little hollows, deformed with paleness or redness, and lower than the remaining surface,

³⁸he shall exit by the door of the house, and immediately close it up for seven days.

³⁹And returning on the seventh day, he shall examine it. If he finds that the leprosy has spread,

⁴⁰he shall order the stones in which the leprosy is, to be dug out and cast outside the city in an unclean place,

⁴¹and that the house be scraped on the inside all around, and that the dust of the scrapings be scattered outside the city in an unclean place,

⁴²and that other stones be put back, in place of those which had been taken away, and that the house be plastered with other mortar.

⁴³But if, after the stones have been dug out, and the dust wiped away, and it is plastered with other clay,

⁴⁴the priest, upon entering, will have seen that the leprosy has returned, and that the walls are sprinkled with spots, then it is a persistent leprosy and the house is unclean.

⁴⁵And so they shall promptly destroy it, and shall cast its stones and timber, and also all the dust, outside the town in an unclean place.

⁴⁶Whoever enters into the house when it is closed up shall be unclean until evening.

⁴⁷And whoever will have slept in it, or eaten anything, shall wash his clothes.

⁴⁸But if the priest, upon entering, will have seen that the leprosy has not spread in the house, after it had been newly plastered, he shall purify it, restoring it to health.

⁴⁹And for its purification, he shall take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and vermillion, as well as hyssop,

⁵⁰and, having immolated one sparrow in an earthen vessel over living waters,

⁵¹he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living sparrow, and he shall dip all these in the blood of the immolated sparrow, and also in the living water, and he shall sprinkle the house seven times.

⁵²And he shall purify it as much with the blood of the sparrow as with the living water, and with the living sparrow, and the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the vermillion.

⁵³And when he has released the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house, and it shall be justly cleansed.

⁵⁴This is the law of every kind of leprosy and plague:

⁵⁵of the leprosy of garments and houses,

⁵⁶of scars and erupting pustules, of a shining spot, when the appearance is also variegated,

⁵⁷so that it can be known at what time a thing is clean or unclean.

Leviticus 14

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

²This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall be brought to the priest:

³Who going out of the camp, when he shall find that the leprosy is cleansed,

⁴Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

⁵And he shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters.

⁶But the other that is alive, he shall dip, with the cedar wood, and the scarlet and the hyssop, in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated:

⁷Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that is to be cleansed seven times, that he may be rightly purified. And he shall let go the living sparrow, that it may fly into the field.

⁸And when the man hath washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent seven days.

⁹And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and his beard and his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body. And having washed again his clothes, and his body,

¹⁰On the eighth day, he shall take two lambs without blemish, and an ewe of a year old without blemish, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.

¹¹And when the priest that purifieth the man, hath presented him, and all these things before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony:

¹²He shall take a lamb, and offer it for a trespass offering with the sextary of oil. And having offered all before the Lord,

¹³He shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in the holy place. For as that which is for sin, so also the victim for a trespass offering pertaineth to the priest: it is holy of holies.

¹⁴And the priest taking of the blood of the victim that was immolated for trespass, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot.

¹⁵And he shall pour of the sextary of oil into his own left hand,

¹⁶And shall dip his right finger in it, and sprinkle it before the Lord seven times.

¹⁷And the rest of the oil in his left hand, he shall pour upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, and upon the blood that was shed for trespass:

¹⁸And upon his head.

¹⁹And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and shall offer the sacrifice for sin. Then shall he immolate the holocaust.

²⁰And put it on the altar with the libations thereof: and the man shall be rightly cleansed.

²¹But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things aforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an offering for trespass, that the priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil:

²²And two turtles or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other for a holocaust.

²³And he shall offer them on the eighth day of his purification to the priest, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord.

²⁴And the priest receiving the lamb for trespass, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together.

²⁵And the lamb being immolated, he shall put of the blood thereof upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot.

²⁶But he shall pour part of the oil into his own left hand,

²⁷And dipping the finger of his right hand in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord.

²⁸And he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, in the place of the blood that was shed for trespass.

²⁹And the other part of the oil that is in his left hand, he shall pour upon the head of the purified person, that he may appease the Lord for him.

³⁰And he shall offer a turtle, or young pigeon:

³¹One for trespass, and the other for a holocaust, with their libations.

³²This is the sacrifice of a leper, that is not able to have all things that appertain to his cleansing.

³³And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

³⁴When you shall come into the land of Chanaan, which I will give you for a possession, if there be the plague or leprosy in a house:

³⁵He whose house it is, shall go and tell the priest, saying: It seemeth to me, that there is the plague of leprosy in my house,

³⁶And he shall command, that they carry forth all things out of the house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy, let all things become unclean that are in the house. And afterwards he shall go in to view the leprosy of the house.

³⁷And if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints, disfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all he rest:

³⁸He shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it up seven days,

³⁹And returning on the seventh day, he shall look upon it. If he find that the leprosy is spread,

⁴⁰He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:

⁴¹And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scrapings be scattered without the city into an unclean place:

⁴²And that other stones be laid in the place of them that were taken away, and the house be plastered with other mortar.

⁴³But if after the stones be taken out, and the dust scraped off, and it be plastered with other earth.

⁴⁴The priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house is unclean.

⁴⁵And they shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust without the town into an unclean place.

⁴⁶He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until evening,

⁴⁷And he that sleepeth in it, and eateth any thing, shall wash his clothes.

⁴⁸But if the priest going in perceive that the leprosy is not spread in the house, after it was plastered again, he shall purify it, it being cured.

⁴⁹And for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

⁵⁰And having immolated one sparrow in an earthen vessel, over living waters,

⁵¹He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated, and in the living water: and he shall sprinkle the house seven times.

⁵²And shall purify it as well with the blood of the sparrow, as with the living water, and with the living sparrow, and with the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet.

⁵³And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house: and it shall be rightly cleansed.

⁵⁴This is the law of every kind of leprosy and stroke.

⁵⁵Of the leprosy of garments and houses,

⁵⁶Of a scar and of blisters breaking out of a shining spot, and when the colours are diversely changed:

⁵⁷That it may be known when a thing is clean or unclean.