Leviticus
Chapter 14
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
2This shall be the instruction for the person with the skin disease on the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest.
3The priest shall go outside the camp. The priest shall look, and look, the mark of the skin disease is healed from the person with the skin disease.
4The priest shall command, and the one being cleansed shall take two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
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Sheni tola’at is scarlet of the worm, yarn dyed with that scarlet. Ezov is hyssop. The two birds are living and clean.
5The priest shall command, and one bird shall be slaughtered into a clay vessel, over living water.
6He shall take the living bird, the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird slaughtered over the living water.
7He shall sprinkle it seven times on the one being cleansed from the skin disease, and he shall declare him clean, and he shall send the living bird away over the open field.
8The one being cleansed shall wash his clothes, shave all his hair, and wash in water, and he shall be clean. After that he may come into the camp, and he shall stay outside his tent seven days.
9On the seventh day he shall shave all his hair, his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and all his hair he shall shave. He shall wash his clothes and wash his body in water, and he shall be clean.
10On the eighth day he shall take two whole lambs, and one whole ewe lamb in its first year, and three tenths of an A large measure for grain. of fine flour as a grain gift mixed with oil, and one A small measure for oil. of oil.
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An issaron is a tenth of an ephah. A log is a liquid measure. Neither is converted, as in Exodus.
11The priest who is cleansing shall stand the man being cleansed, and them, before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
12The priest shall take one lamb and bring it near as a guilt offering, with the A small measure for oil. of oil, and he shall raise them as a raised offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
13He shall slaughter the lamb in the place where he slaughters the offense offering and the whole offering, in the holy place, because the guilt offering, like the offense offering, belongs to the priest. It is a most holy thing.
14The priest shall 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 being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
15The priest shall take some of the A small measure for oil. of oil and pour it on the priest’s left palm.
16The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is on his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
17Some of the oil that is left on his palm the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering.
18What is left of the oil that is on the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one being cleansed. The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
19The priest shall make the offense offering and make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for the one being cleansed from his uncleanness. After that he shall slaughter the whole offering.
20The priest shall offer up the whole offering and the grain gift on the altar. The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him, and he shall be clean.
21If he is poor and his hand cannot reach it, he shall take one lamb as a guilt offering for a raised offering, to make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him, and one tenth of an A large measure for grain. of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain gift, and a A small measure for oil. of oil,
22and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whatever his hand can reach, and one shall be an offense offering and one a whole offering.
23He shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
24The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the A small measure for oil. of oil, and the priest shall raise them as a raised offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
25He 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 cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
26The priest shall pour some of the oil on the priest’s left palm.
27The priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is on his left palm seven times before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
28The priest shall put some of the oil that is on his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one being cleansed, 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.
29What is left of the oil that is on the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one being cleansed, to make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for him before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
30He shall make one of the turtledoves or of the young pigeons, from whatever his hand can reach,
31whatever his hand can reach, the one as an offense offering and the one as a whole offering, along with the grain gift. The priest shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for the one being cleansed before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
32This is the instruction for the one who has a mark of skin disease, whose hand cannot reach it in his cleansing.
33God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses and to Aaron:
34When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a holding, and I put a mark of skin disease in a house of the land of your holding,
35the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, “Something like a mark has appeared to me in the house.”
36The priest shall command, and they shall empty the house before the priest comes to see the mark, so that everything in the house does not become unclean. After that the priest shall come to see the house.
37He shall look at the mark, and look, the mark is in the walls of the house, sunken places, greenish or reddish, and their look is lower than the wall.
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Sheqa’arurot are sunken places in the wall. Yerakrak is greenish. Adamdam is reddish.
38The priest shall go out of the house to the entrance of the house and shut up the house for seven days.
39The priest shall return on the seventh day and look. Look, the mark has spread in the walls of the house.
40The priest shall command, and they shall pull out the stones in which the mark is, and throw them outside the city, into an unclean place.
41He shall have the house scraped inside, all around, and they shall pour out the dust they scraped outside the city, into an unclean place.
42They shall take other stones and bring them in place of those stones, and he shall take other dust and plaster the house.
43If the mark returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, after the house has been scraped, and after it has been plastered,
44the priest shall come and look. Look, the mark has spread in the house. It is a biting skin disease in the house. It is unclean.
45He shall tear down the house, its stones, its timber, and all the dust of the house, and bring them out outside the city, to an unclean place.
46Whoever enters the house on any of the days it is shut up shall be unclean until evening.
47Whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48If the priest does come and look, and look, the mark has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, the priest shall declare the house clean, because the mark is healed.
49To purge the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
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Le-chatte is to purge the house by the rite, the same verb as the offense offering. The house is not given a second animal name.
50He shall slaughter one bird into a clay vessel over living water.
51He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the living bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the living water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52He shall purge the house with the blood of the bird, with the living water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet yarn.
53He shall send the living bird away outside the city, over the open field. He shall make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for the house, and it shall be clean.
54This is the instruction for every mark of the skin disease, and for the scale,
55and for skin disease of a garment and of a house,
56and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot,
57to teach on the day of the unclean and on the day of the clean. This is the instruction of the skin disease.