Leviticus

Cleansing of a Leper

Chapter 14
1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying. 2 This shall be the Torah of the one afflicted with tzara'at on the day of his purity. And he shall be brought to the priest. 3 And the priest shall go outside the camp, and the priest shall examine it. Behold, the plague of leprosy has healed from the leprous one. 4 And the priest shall command and shall take for the one being cleansed two living birds ritually clean, cedar wood, two scarlet worms, and hyssop. 5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered into an earthen vessel over living waters. 6 He shall take the living bird with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the living water. 7 And he shall sprinkle it on the one being cleansed from the skin disease seven times, and he shall be clean. And he shall send away the living bird into the open field. 8 The one who is purifying himself shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, wash in water, and be clean. Afterward, he shall come into the camp but stay outside his tent for seven days. 9 And it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave all his hair—his head and his beard and the eyebrows of his eyes—and all his hair he shall shave. And he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be pure. 10 And on the eighth day he shall take two unblemished lambs and one ewe lamb a year old, unblemished, and three-tenths fine flour as a grain offering mixed with oil, and one log of oil. 11 And the priest who is purifying shall cause the man who is being purified and them to stand before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 12 And the priest shall take the one lamb and offer it up as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. 13 And he shall slaughter the lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the holy things, for the guilt offering is like the sin offering: it belongs to the priest; it is most holy. 14 And the priest took some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the thumb of his right foot. 15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it on the priest's left palm. 16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the anointing oil that was on the palm of his left hand and shall sprinkle some of the anointing oil with his finger seven times before the LORD. 17 And from the remainder of the oil that is on the palm of the priest's hand, the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the thumb of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering. 18 And the remainder of the oil that is on the priest's palm he shall put on the head of the one being purified, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD. 19 The priest shall make the sin offering and atone for the one being purified from his uncleanness. Afterward, he shall slaughter the burnt offering. 20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the sacrifice on the altar, and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be purified. 21 And if he is poor and his hand does not reach, then he shall take one lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make atonement for him, and one tenth of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil. 22 And two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever his hand obtains, and one shall be a sin offering and the other an ascent offering. 23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day of his purification to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the LORD. 24 And the priest took the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest waved them as a wave offering before the LORD. 25 He shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 26 And the priest shall pour some of the oil on the palm of the priest's left hand. 27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is on the palm of his left hand seven times before the LORD. 28 And the priest shall put some of the oil that is on his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified and on the thumb of his right hand and on the thumb of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering. 29 And the remainder of the oil that is on the palm of the priest's left hand he shall put on the head of the one being purified to make atonement for him before the LORD. 30 And he shall do the one from the regulations or from the sons of the dove according as her hand attains. 31 The one that his hand attains — the one sin offering and the one burnt offering upon the grain offering — and the priest shall make atonement for the one being purified before the LORD. 32 This is the Torah of the one in whom is the mark of tsara'at, which his hand does not reach for his purity.