Chapter
14
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
"This shall be the law of the leper in the day of her cleansing. She shall be brought to the priestess,
and the priestess shall go forth out of the camp. The priestess shall examine her, and behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
then the priestess shall command them to take for her who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
The priestess shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
As for the living bird, she shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
She shall sprinkle on her who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce her clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
"She who is to be cleansed shall wash her clothes, and shave off all her hair, and bathe herself in water; and she shall be clean. After that she shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside her tent seven days.
It shall be on the seventh day, that she shall shave all her hair off her head and her beard and her eyebrows, even all her hair she shall shave off. She shall wash her clothes, and she shall bathe her body in water, then she shall be clean.
"On the eighth day she shall take two female lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
The priestess who cleanses her shall set the woman who is to be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
"The priestess shall take one of the female lambs, and offer her for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
She shall kill the female lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priestess's, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.
The priestess shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priestess shall put it on the tip of the right ear of her who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of her right hand, and on the big toe of her right foot.
The priestess shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of her own left hand.
The priestess shall dip her right finger in the oil that is in her left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with her finger seven times before Yahweh.
The priestess shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in her hand on the tip of the right ear of her who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of her right hand, and on the big toe of her right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
The rest of the oil that is in the priestess's hand she shall put on the head of her who is to be cleansed, and the priestess shall make atonement for her before Yahweh.
"The priestess shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for her who is to be cleansed because of her uncleanness: and afterward she shall kill the burnt offering;
and the priestess shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priestess shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
"If she is poor, and can't afford so much, then she shall take one female lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for her, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;
and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as she is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
"On the eighth day she shall bring them for her cleansing to the priestess, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh.
The priestess shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priestess shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
She shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priestess shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of her who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of her right hand, and on the big toe of her right foot.
The priestess shall pour some of the oil into the palm of her own left hand;
and the priestess shall sprinkle with her right finger some of the oil that is in her left hand seven times before Yahweh.
Then the priestess shall put some of the oil that is in her hand on the tip of the right ear of her who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of her right hand, and on the big toe of her right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.
The rest of the oil that is in the priestess's hand she shall put on the head of her who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for her before Yahweh.
She shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as she is able to afford,
even such as she is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priestess shall make atonement for her who is to be cleansed before Yahweh."
This is the law for her in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for her cleansing.
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
"When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,
then she who owns the house shall come and tell the priestess, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.'
The priestess shall command that they empty the house, before the priestess goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priestess shall go in to inspect the house.
She shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;
then the priestess shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
The priestess shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
then the priestess shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:
and she shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.
They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and she shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
"If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after she has taken out the stones, and after she has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
then the priestess shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.
She shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. She shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
"Moreover she who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
She who lies down in the house shall wash her clothes; and she who eats in the house shall wash her clothes.
"If the priestess shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priestess shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
To cleanse the house she shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
She shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
She shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
She shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;
but she shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall she make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean."
This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,
and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.