Leviticus 14

1 The Lord told Moses,

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “These are the regulations regarding those who have had a skin disease when they are declared clean having been brought to the priest.

“This will be the law for the diseased person on the day of his cleansing. He must be brought to the priest.

3 The priest must go outside the camp and inspect the person. If the skin disease has healed,

The priest will go out of the camp to examine the person to see if the infectious skin disease is healed.

4 the priest shall have two ceremonially clean birds brought to him, also some cedar wood, crimson thread, and hyssop, on behalf of the person to be made clean.

Then the priest will command that the one to be cleansed must take two live, clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.

5 The priest will order one of the birds to be killed over a clay pot filled with fresh water.

The priest will command him to kill one of the birds over fresh water that is in a clay pot.

6 He will take the live bird together with the cedar wood, crimson thread, and hyssop, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.

The priest will then take the live bird and the cedar wood, and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and he will dip all these things, including the live bird, in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.

7 He will use the blood to sprinkle seven times the person being made clean of the skin disease. Then the priest will declare them clean and let the live bird fly away.

Then the priest will sprinkle this water seven times onto the person who is to be cleansed from the disease, and then the priest will pronounce him to be clean. Then the priest will release the living bird into the open fields.

8 The one being made clean must wash their clothes, shave off all their hair, and wash themselves with water; then they will be will be ceremonially clean. After that they can enter the camp, but they must stay outside their tent for seven days.

The person who is being cleansed will wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and then he will be clean. After that he must come into the camp, but he will live outside his tent for seven days.

9 On the seventh day they must shave off all their hair: their head, beard, eyebrows, and the rest of their hair. They must wash their clothes and wash themselves with water, and they will be clean.

On the seventh day he must shave all his hair off his head, and he must also shave off his beard and eyebrows. He must shave off all his hair, and he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water; then he will be clean.

10 On the eighth day they are to bring two male lambs and one female lamb, all a year old and without defects; a grain offering consisting of three-tenths of an ephah of best flour mixed with olive oil, and one ‘log’ of olive oil.

On the eighth day he must take two male lambs without blemish, one female lamb a year old without blemish, and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one log of oil.

11 The priest who conducts the ceremony will present the person to be made clean to the Lord, along with these offerings, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

The priest who cleanses him will stand the person who is to be cleansed, along with those things, before Yahweh at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

12 The priest will take one of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, together with the log of olive oil; and he will wave them before the Lord as a wave offering.

The priest will take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, together with the log of oil; he will wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.

13 Then he will kill the lamb near the sanctuary where the sin offering and burnt offering are killed. The sin offering and the guilt offering belong to the priest; it is most holy.

He must kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offerings and the burnt offerings, in the area of the tabernacle, for the sin offering belongs to the priest, as does the guilt offering, because it is most holy.

14 The priest will put some of the blood from the guilt offering on their right earlobe, on their right thumb, and on the big toe of their right foot of the person being made clean.

The priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the person who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

15 The priest will pour some of the log of olive oil into his left palm,

Then the priest will take oil from the log and pour it into the palm of his own left hand,

16 dip his right index finger in it, and using his finger, sprinkle some of the olive oil seven times before the Lord.

and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.

17 The priest will then use some of the rest of the olive oil remaining in his palm on the person being made clean, and put it on top of the blood of the guilt offering. This will be on their right earlobe, on their right thumb, and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.

The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the person to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. He must put this oil on top of the blood from the guilt offering.

18 What is left of the olive oil in his palm, the priest will put on the head of the person being made clean and then make them right before the Lord.

As for the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand, he will put it on the head of the person who is to be cleansed, and the priest will make atonement for him before Yahweh.

19 The priest will sacrifice the sin offering to make the person right, so that they are now clean from their uncleanness. After that, the priest will kill the burnt offering

Then the priest will offer the sin offering and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness, and afterward he will kill the burnt offering.

20 and offer it on the altar, together with the grain offering, to make them right, and they will be clean.

Then the priest will offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. The priest will make atonement for the person, and then he will be clean.

21 But those who are poor and can't afford these offerings must bring one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make them right, together with a tenth an ephah of best flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,

However, if the person is poor and cannot afford these sacrifices, then he may take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for himself, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil,

22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever they can afford. One is to be used as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.

together with two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; one bird will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.

23 On the eighth day they are to take them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the Lord so they can be made clean.

On the eighth day he must bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting, before Yahweh.

24 The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering, together with the log of olive oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the Lord.

The priest will take the lamb for an offering, and he will take with it the log of olive oil, and he will lift them high as he presents them to Yahweh.

25 After he kills the lamb for the guilt offering, the priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one being made clean, on their right thumb, and on the big toe of their right foot.

He will kill the lamb for the guilt offering, and he will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

26 Then the priest will pour some of the olive oil into his left palm

Then the priest will pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,

27 and using his right index finger, will sprinkle some of the oil from his left palm seven times before the Lord.

and he will sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh.

28 The priest shall also put some of the olive oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the person being made clean, on their right thumb, and on the big toe of his right foot, in the same places as the blood of the guilt offering.

The priest will then put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the one who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, the same places where he put the blood of the guilt offering.

29 What is left of the olive oil in his palm, the priest will put on the head of the person being made clean and then make them right before the Lord.

He will put the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the head of the one who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh.

30 Then they must sacrifice one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, whichever they can afford,

He must offer one of the doves or young pigeons, such as the person has been able to get—

31 one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. This is how the priest will make the person right and clean before the Lord.

one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. Then the priest will make atonement for the one who is to be cleansed before Yahweh.

32 These are the regulations for those who have a skin disease and can't afford the usual offerings to make people clean.”

This is the law for a person in whom there is an infectious skin disease, who is not able to afford the standard offerings for his cleansing.”

33 Then the Lord told Moses and Aaron,

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

34 “When you get to Canaan, the land I'm giving you to own, if I put some mold into a house there and contaminate it,

“When you have come into the land of Canaan which I gave to you as a possession, and if I put mildew that spreads in a house in the land of your possession,

35 the owner of the house must come and tell the priest, ‘It seems my house has something like mold.’

then he who owns the house must come and tell the priest. He must say, 'There seems to me to be something like mildew in my house.'

36 The priest must order the house to be emptied before he goes in to inspect the mold, so that nothing in the house will be declared unclean. Once that's done, the priest is to go in and inspect the house.

Then the priest will command that they empty the house before he goes in to see the evidence of mildew, so that nothing in the house will be made unclean. Afterward the priest must go in to see the house.

37 He will examine the house and see whether the mold on the walls is made up of green or red indentations that go under the surface,

He must examine the mildew to see if it is in the house walls, and to see whether it appears greenish or reddish in the depressions in the wall's surface.

38 the priest shall go out of door and seal the house for seven days.

If the house does have mildew, then the priest will go out of the house and shut the door to the house for seven days.

39 On the seventh day the priest will return and inspect the house again. If the mold has spread on the walls,

Then the priest will return again on the seventh day and examine it to see if the mildew has spread in the walls of the house.

40 he will order the affected stones to be removed and disposed of in an unclean area outside the town.

If it has, then the priest will command that they take out the stones in which the mildew has been found and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.

41 Then he will order the all the plaster inside of the house to be scraped off and dumped in an unclean area outside the town.

He will require all the inside walls of the house to be scraped, and they must take the contaminated material that is scraped off outside the city and dump it into the unclean place.

42 Different stones must be used to replace the ones removed, and new plaster will be needed replaster the house.

They must take other stones and put them in the place of the stones that were removed, and they must use new clay to plaster the house.

43 If the mold returns and affects the house again even after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and replastered,

If mildew comes again and breaks out in the house in which the stones have been taken away and the walls have been scraped and then replastered,

44 the priest must come and inspect it. If he sees the mold has spread in the house, it is a harmful mold; the house is unclean.

then the priest must come in and examine the house to see if mildew has spread in the house. If it has, then it is harmful mildew, and the house is unclean.

45 It must be demolished, and all its stones, timbers, and plaster must be taken and dumped in an unclean area outside the town.

The house must be torn down. The stones, timber, and all the plaster in the house must be carried away out of the city to the unclean place.

46 Anyone who goes into the house during any time that it is sealed will be unclean until the evening.

In addition, whoever goes into the house during the time it is closed up will be unclean until evening.

47 Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash their clothes.

Anyone who slept in the house must wash his clothes, and anyone who ate in the house must wash his clothes.

48 However, if when the priest comes and inspects it and finds that the mold hasn't reappeared after the house was replastered, he shall declare the house clean because the mold is gone.

If the priest enters the house to examine it to see whether the mildew has spread in the house after the house was plastered, then, if the mildew is gone, he will pronounce the house clean.

49 He will bring two birds, cedar wood, crimson thread, and hyssop to make the house clean.

Then the priest must take two birds to cleanse the house, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop.

50 He will kill one of the birds over a clay pot filled with fresh water.

He will kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay jar.

51 He will dip the live bird, the cedar wood, crimson thread, and hyssop, in the blood of the bird that was killed and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

He will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the killed bird, into the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

52 He will make the house clean with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the crimson thread.

He will cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water, with the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.

53 Then he will let the live bird fly away outside the town. This is how he will make the house right, and it will be clean.

But he will let the live bird go out of the city into the open fields. In this way he must make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

54 These are the regulations for any infectious skin disease, for a scabby infection,

This is the law for all types of infectious skin disease and things that cause such disease, and for an itch,

55 for mold on clothing and in a house,

and for mildew in clothing and in a house,

56 as well as for a swelling, rash, or spot.

for swelling, for a rash, and for a bright spot,

57 They are used to decide whether something is clean or unclean. These are the regulations regarding skin diseases and mold.”

to determine when any of these cases is unclean or when it is clean. This is the law for infectious skin diseases and mildew.”