14:1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
14:2 “This shall be the law of the person with leprosy on the day of his cleansing. Now he shall be brought to the priest;
14:3 and the priest shall go out to a place outside of the camp. Then the priest shall look, and if the ①leprous infection has been healed in the person with leprosy,
▷ ①I.e., or a serious, unspecified disease, and so throughout the ch
14:4 then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds, cedar wood, a ①scarlet string, and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.
▷ ①Lit scarlet color and
14:5 The priest shall also give orders to slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over ①running water.
▷ ①Lit living
14:6 As for the live bird, he shall take it together with the cedar wood, the ①scarlet string, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the ②running water.
▷ ①Lit scarlet color and ②Lit living
14:7 He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird go free over the open field.
14:8 The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair, and bathe in water and be clean. And afterward he may enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent for seven days.
14:9 Then it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his ①body in water and be clean.
▷ ①Lit flesh
14:10 “Now on the eighth day he is to take two male lambs without defect, and a yearling ewe lamb without defect, and three-tenths of an ①ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one ②log of oil;
▷ ①About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters ②About 0.6 pt. or 0.3 liter
14:11 and the priest who is going to pronounce him clean shall present the person to be cleansed and ①the offerings before the LORD at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
▷ ①Lit them
14:12 Then the priest shall take the one male lamb and bring it as a guilt offering, with the ①log of oil, and present them as a wave offering before the LORD.
▷ ①About 0.6 pt. or 0.3 liter
14:13 Next he shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where they slaughter the ①sin offering and the burnt offering, at the place of the sanctuary—for the guilt offering, like the ②sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
▷ ①Or purification offering ②Or purification offering
14:14 The priest shall then take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
14:15 The priest shall also take some of the ①log of oil, and pour it into his left palm;
▷ ①About 0.6 pt. or 0.3 liter
14:16 the priest shall then dip his right-hand finger into the oil that is in his left palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the LORD.
14:17 Of the remaining oil which is in his palm, the priest shall put some on the right ear lobe of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering;
14:18 as for the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm, he shall put it on the head of the one to be cleansed. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the LORD.
14:19 The priest shall next offer the ①sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterward, he shall slaughter the burnt offering.
▷ ①Or purification offering
14:20 The priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be clean.
14:21 “But if he is poor and his ①means are insufficient, then he is to take one male lamb for a guilt offering as a wave offering to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ②ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a ③log of oil,
▷ ①Lit hand is not reaching ②About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters ③About 0.6 pt. or 0.3 liter
14:22 and two turtledoves or two young doves, which ①are within his means. The one shall be a ②sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
▷ ①Lit his hand reaches ②Or purification offering
14:23 Then on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, before the LORD.
14:24 The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the ①log of oil, and the priest shall offer them as a wave offering before the LORD.
▷ ①About 0.6 pt. or 0.3 liter
14:25 Next he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
14:26 The priest shall also pour some of the oil into his left palm;
14:27 and with his right-hand finger the priest shall sprinkle some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before the LORD.
14:28 The priest shall then put some of the oil that is in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering.
14:29 Moreover, the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm, he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement on his behalf before the LORD.
14:30 He shall then offer one of the turtledoves or young doves, ①which are within his means.
▷ ①Lit from which his hand reaches
14:31 He shall offer what ①he can afford, the one as a ②sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. So the priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the one to be cleansed.
▷ ①Lit his hand reaches ②Or purification offering
14:32 This is the law for him in whom there is an infection of leprosy, whose ①means are limited for his cleansing.”
▷ ①Lit hand does not reach
14:33 The LORD further spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
14:34 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put a spot of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession,
14:35 then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like a spot of leprosy has become visible to me in the house.’
14:36 The priest shall then command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the spot, so that everything in the house need not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house.
14:37 So he shall look at the spot, and if the spot on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the ①surface,
▷ ①Lit wall
14:38 the priest shall come out of the house, to the ①doorway, and ②quarantine the house for seven days.
▷ ①Lit doorway of the house ②Lit separate
14:39 Then the priest shall return on the seventh day and ①make an inspection. If the spot has indeed spread on the walls of the house,
▷ ①Lit look
14:40 the priest shall order them to pull out the stones with the spot on them and throw them away ①at an unclean place outside the city.
▷ ①Lit to
14:41 And he shall have the house scraped all around ①inside, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city.
▷ ①Lit from the house
14:42 Then they shall take other stones and replace the discarded stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.
14:43 “If, however, the spot breaks out again in the house after he has pulled out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered,
14:44 then the priest shall come in and ①make an inspection. If he sees that the spot has indeed spread in the house, it is a malignant spot in the house; it is unclean.
▷ ①Lit look
14:45 The owner shall therefore tear down the house, its stones, its timbers, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an unclean place.
14:46 Moreover, whoever goes into the house during the time that he has ①quarantined it, becomes unclean until evening.
▷ ①Lit separated
14:47 Likewise, whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
14:48 “If, on the other hand, the priest comes in and ①makes an inspection and the spot has not indeed spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the spot has ②not reappeared.
▷ ①Lit looks ②Lit healed
14:49 To cleanse the house then, he shall take two birds, cedar wood, a ①scarlet string, and hyssop,
▷ ①Lit scarlet color
14:50 and he shall slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over ①running water.
▷ ①Lit living
14:51 Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the ①scarlet string, with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird as well as in the ②running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
▷ ①Lit scarlet color ②Lit living
14:52 So he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the ①running water, along with the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the ②scarlet string.
▷ ①Lit living ②Lit scarlet color
14:53 However, he shall let the live bird go free outside the city into the open field. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”
14:54 This is the law for any spot of leprosy—even for a scale,
14:55 and for the leprous garment or house,
14:56 and for a swelling, for a scab, and for a bright spot—
14:57 to teach ①when they are unclean and ②when they are clean. This is the law of leprosy.
▷ ①Lit on the day of uncleanness ②Lit on the day of cleanness