Leviticus 14:1-18

Lexham English Bible

Instructions for Cleansing Infectious Skin Diseases

14 Then^[a] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² “This is the regulation of the person afflicted with a skin disease at the time of^[b] his cleansing. And he shall be brought to the priest, ³ and the priest shall go outside the camp,^[c] and the priest shall examine him,^[d] and if^[e] the skin disease’s infection is healed on^[f] the afflicted person, ⁴ then^[g] the priest shall command, and he shall take two living, clean birds and cedar wood^[h] and a crimson thread^[i] and hyssop for the one who presents himself for cleansing. ⁵ Then^[j] the priest shall command someone^[k] to slaughter one bird over fresh water in a clay vessel. ⁶ He must take the living bird and the cedar wood^[l] and the crimson thread^[m] and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird in the bird’s blood slaughtered over the fresh water. ⁷ And he shall spatter the blood^[n] seven times on the one who presents himself for cleansing from the infectious skin disease, and he shall declare him clean, and he shall send the living bird into the open field.^{[o] 8} Then^[p] the one who presents himself for cleansing shall wash his garments, and he shall shave off all his hair, and he shall wash himself in the water; thus^[q] he shall be clean, and afterward he shall enter the camp, but^[r] he shall stay outside his tent^[s] for seven days. ⁹ And then^[t] on the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—he must shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows^[u] and all the rest^[v] of his hair—and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body in the water; thus^[w] he shall be clean.

¹⁰ “And on the eighth day he must take two male lambs without defect and one ewe-lamb in its first year^[x] without defect and three-tenths of an ephah^[y] of finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering and one log of oil. ¹¹ And the priest who cleanses him^[z] shall present the man who presents himself for cleansing and these things^[aa] before^[ab] the tent of assembly’s entrance. ¹² Then^[ac] the priest shall take the one male lamb, and he shall present it as a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and he shall wave them as a wave offering before^[ad] Yahweh. ¹³ And he shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering in the sanctuary’s space,^[ae] because as the sin offering belongs to the priest, so also the guilt offering—it is a most holy thing.^{[af] 14} And the priest shall take some of^[ag] the guilt offering’s blood, and the priest shall put it^[ah] on the right ear’s lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe. ¹⁵ And the priest shall take some of^[ai] the log of oil, and he shall pour it^[aj] on his^[ak] left palm; ¹⁶ and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is on his left palm, and he shall spatter some of^[al] the oil with his finger seven times before^[am] Yahweh. ¹⁷ Then^[an] the priest shall put some of^[ao] the remaining oil, which is on his palm, on the right ear’s lobe of the one to be cleansed and on his right hand’s thumb and on his right foot’s big toe, on top of the guilt offering’s blood.^{[ap] 18} And the remaining oil that is on the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one who presents himself for cleansing, and the priest shall make atonement for him before^[aq] Yahweh.