Leviticus 14

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

And the Lord said to Moses,

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

This is the law of the leper on the day when he is made clean: he is to be taken to the priest;

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

And the priest is to go outside the tent-circle; and if, after looking, the priest sees that the mark of the disease has gone from him,

4 shall 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.

Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop.

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

And the priest will give orders for one of the birds to be put to death in a vessel made of earth, over flowing water.

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

And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water.

7 And 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.

And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country.

8 And 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.

And he who is to be made clean will have his clothing washed and his hair cut and have a bath, and he will be clean. And after that he will come back to the tent-circle; but he is to keep outside his tent for seven days.

9 And 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,

And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes — all his hair is to be cut off — and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean.

10 on 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.

And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.

11 And 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,

And the priest who is making him clean will put the man who is being made clean, together with these things, before the door of the Tent of meeting.

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

And the priest is to take one of the male lambs and give it as an offering for wrongdoing, and the log of oil, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord;

13 he 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.

And he is to put the male lamb to death in the place where they put to death the sin-offering and the burned offering, in the holy place; for as the sin-offering is the property of the priest, so is the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy.

14 And 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.

And let the priest take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot;

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

And take some of the oil and put it in the hollow of his left hand;

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

And let the priest put his right finger in the oil which is in his left hand, shaking it out with his finger seven times before the Lord;

17 But 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,

And of the rest of the oil which is in his hand, the priest will put some on the point of the right ear of the man who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, over the blood of the offering for wrongdoing;

18 and upon his head.

And the rest of the oil in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean; and so the priest will make him free from sin before the Lord.

19 And 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,

And the priest will give the sin-offering, and take away the sin of him who is to be made clean from his unclean condition; and after that he will put the burned offering to death.

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

And the priest is to have the burned offering and the meal offering burned on the altar; and the priest will take away his sin and he will be clean.

21 But 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,

And if he is poor and not able to get so much, then he may take one male lamb as an offering for wrongdoing, to be waved to take away his sin, and one tenth part of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;

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

And two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and one will be for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering.

23 And 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.

And on the eighth day he will take them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, so that he may be made clean.

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

And the priest will take the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the oil, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord;

25 And 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.

And he will put to death the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the priest will take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot;

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

And the priest will put out some of the oil in the hollow of his left hand,

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

Shaking out drops of oil with his right finger before the Lord seven times:

28 And 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.

And the priest will put some of the oil which is in his hand on the point of the ear of the man who is to be made clean and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place where the blood of the offering for wrongdoing was put;

29 But 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.

And the rest of the oil which is in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean, to take away his sin before the Lord.

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

And he will make an offering of one of the doves or the young pigeons, such as he is able to get;

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

And of these, he will give one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering, with the meal offering; and the priest will take away the sin of him who is to be made clean before the Lord.

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

This is the law for the man who has the disease of the leper on him, and who is not able to get that which is necessary for making himself clean.

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

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

34 When 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,

When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage,

35 he 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.”

Then let the owner of the house come and say to the priest, It seems to me that there is a sort of leper's disease in the house.

36 And 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.

And the priest will give orders for everything to be taken out of the house, before he goes in to see the disease, so that the things in the house may not become unclean; and then the priest is to go in to see the house;

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

And if he sees that the walls of the house are marked with hollows of green and red, and if it seems to go deeper than the face of the wall;

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

Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days:

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

And the priest is to come again on the seventh day and have a look and see if the marks on the walls of the house are increased in size;

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

Then the priest will give orders to them to take out the stones in which the disease is seen, and put them out into an unclean place outside the town:

41 and 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,

And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town:

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

And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house.

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

And if the disease comes out again in the house after he has taken out the stones and after the walls have been rubbed and the new paste put on,

44 the 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.

Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean.

45 And 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.

And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

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

And, in addition, anyone who goes into the house at any time, while it is shut up, will be unclean till evening.

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

And anyone who has been sleeping in the house will have to have his clothing washed; and anyone who takes food in that house will have to have his clothing washed.

48 But 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.

And if the priest comes in, and sees that the disease is not increased after the new paste has been put on the house, then the priest will say that the house is clean, because the disease is gone.

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

And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop;

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

And put one of the birds to death in a vessel of earth over flowing water;

51 he 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.

And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times.

52 And 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.

And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread.

53 And 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.

But he will let the living bird go out of the town into the open country; so he will take away sin from the house and it will be clean.

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

This is the law for all signs of the leper's disease and for skin diseases;

55 of the leprosy of garments and houses,

And for signs of disease in clothing, or in a house;

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

And for a growth or a bad place or a bright mark on the skin;

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

To make clear when it is unclean and when it is clean: this is the law about the disease of the leper.