Leviticus 14
English Standard Version
Laws for Cleansing Lepers
14 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. (A)He shall be brought to the priest, 3 and the priest shall go (B)out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person, 4 the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live[a] clean birds and (C)cedarwood and (D)scarlet yarn and (E)hyssop. 5 And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh[b] water. 6 He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. 7 And he shall (F)sprinkle it (G)seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall (H)let the living bird go (I)into the open field. 8 And he who is to be cleansed (J)shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but (K)live outside his tent seven days. 9 And (L)on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he (M)shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.
10 “And on the eighth day he (N)shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a (O)grain offering of three tenths of an ephah[c] of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log[d] of oil. 11 And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 12 And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and (P)offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and (Q)wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. 13 And he shall kill the lamb (R)in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For (S)the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; (T)it is most holy. 14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it (U)on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 15 Then the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand 16 and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. 17 And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering. 18 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. (V)Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. 19 The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. 20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the (W)grain offering on the altar. (X)Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
21 “But (Y)if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering (Z)to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil; 22 (AA)also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. 23 (AB)And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the Lord. 24 (AC)And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. 25 And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering. (AD)And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and 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 into the palm of his own left hand, 27 and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord. 28 And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put. 29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord. 30 And he shall offer, of the (AE)turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford, 31 one[e] for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. (AF)And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for him who is being cleansed. 32 This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford (AG)the offerings for his cleansing.”
Laws for Cleansing Houses
33 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 34 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you (AH)for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession, 35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some case of (AI)disease in my house.’ 36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest shall go in to see the house. 37 And he shall examine the disease. And if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface, 38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days. 39 And the priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the disease has spread in the walls of the house, 40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city. 41 And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city. 42 Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.
43 “If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it, 44 then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a (AJ)persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean. 45 And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place. 46 Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening, 47 and whoever sleeps in the house (AK)shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 “But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed. 49 And for the (AL)cleansing of the house he shall take (AM)two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop, 50 and shall kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water 51 and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, along with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water and sprinkle the house seven times. 52 Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn. 53 And he shall let the live bird go out of the city (AN)into the open country. So he shall (AO)make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.”
54 This is the law for any case of leprous disease: for (AP)an itch, 55 for (AQ)leprous disease in a garment or in (AR)a house, 56 and (AS)for a swelling or an eruption or a spot, 57 to (AT)show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprous disease.
Footnotes
- Leviticus 14:4 Or wild
- Leviticus 14:5 Or running; Hebrew living; also verses 6, 50, 51, 52
- Leviticus 14:10 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
- Leviticus 14:10 A log was about 1/3 quart or 0.3 liter
- Leviticus 14:31 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew afford, 31 such as he can afford, one
Lê Vi 14
New Vietnamese Bible
Lễ Tẩy Sạch Người Mắc Bệnh Phung
14 CHÚA phán dạy Môi-se: 2 Đây là luật lệ áp dụng cho người phung khi được tinh sạch và được dẫn đến với thầy tế lễ: 3 thầy tế lễ phải ra ngoài trại quân và khám người ấy. Nếu thấy người ấy đã khỏi bệnh phung, 4 thầy tế lễ sẽ bảo đem đến cho người được khỏi bệnh hai con chim sống, thuộc loại tinh sạch, gỗ bá hương, chỉ sợi màu đỏ, cây bài hương. 5 Thầy tế lễ ra lệnh giết một con chim trong chậu bằng đất trên dòng nước. 6 Sau đó thầy tế lễ đem con chim còn sống, cùng với gỗ bá hương, chỉ sợi màu đỏ và cây bài hương, nhúng vào huyết con chim đã bị giết trên dòng nước, 7 và rảy huyết bảy lần trên người khỏi bệnh phung rồi tuyên bố người ấy tinh sạch. Sau đó thầy tế lễ thả con chim còn sống ra đồng trống.
8 Người được tẩy sạch phải giặt quần áo, cạo sạch râu tóc và tắm trong nước, rồi sẽ được sạch. Sau đó người ấy có thể trở vào trại quân, nhưng phải ở bên ngoài lều của mình trong bảy ngày. 9 Bảy ngày sau, người ấy lại phải cạo sạch hết tóc, râu, lông mày và lông trong người, phải giặt quần áo, tắm trong nước và được tinh sạch.
10 Đến ngày thứ tám, người ấy phải đem đến hai con chiên đực không tì vết và một con chiên con cái một tuổi và không tì vết, cùng với ba phần mười ê-pha[a] bột mịn pha dầu để làm tế lễ chay và một lót dầu[b] 11 Thầy tế lễ làm lễ tẩy sạch sẽ đem người được tẩy sạch và tế lễ của người ấy đến trình diện trước mặt CHÚA, tại cửa Trại Hội Kiến.
12 Thầy tế lễ bắt một con chiên đực dâng làm tế lễ chuộc tội, cùng với một lót dầu, và dâng các món này lên làm tế lễ đưa qua đưa lại trước mặt CHÚA. 13 Thầy tế lễ phải giết con chiên này trong Nơi Thánh, tại nơi giết sinh tế làm tế lễ chuộc tội và tế lễ thiêu. Cũng như sinh tế chuộc tội, sinh tế chuộc lỗi thuộc về thầy tế lễ và là một món rất thánh. 14 Thầy tế lễ sẽ lấy một ít huyết của sinh tế chuộc lỗi, đem xức lên trái tai bên phải, lên ngón cái tay phải và ngón cái chân phải của người được tẩy sạch. 15 Rồi thầy tế lễ sẽ đổ một ít dầu vào lòng bàn tay trái mình, 16 nhúng ngón trỏ của bàn tay phải mình vào dầu trong lòng bàn tay trái, rồi dùng ngón tay rảy dầu bảy lần trước mặt CHÚA. 17 Thầy tế lễ lấy một ít dầu trong lòng bàn tay, xức lên trái tai bên phải, lên ngón cái tay phải và ngón cái chân phải của người được tẩy sạch; phần còn lại để lên trên huyết của con sinh tế chuộc lỗi. 18 Phần dầu còn lại trong lòng bàn tay được thầy tế lễ đem xức lên đầu của người được tẩy sạch để chuộc tội cho người ấy trước mặt CHÚA.
19 Thầy tế lễ dâng sinh tế chuộc tội để chuộc tội cho người được tẩy sạch ô uế. Sau đó thầy tế lễ giết sinh tế làm tế lễ thiêu, 20 đem nó dâng trên bàn thờ cùng với tế lễ chay để chuộc tội cho người ấy và người ấy sẽ được tinh sạch.
21 Tuy nhiên, nếu người ấy nghèo, không đủ sức dâng các tế lễ trên, người ấy sẽ dâng một chiên con đực để làm tế lễ chuộc lỗi theo cách dâng đưa qua đưa lại, cùng với một phần mười ê-pha bột mịn pha dầu làm tế lễ chay và một lót dầu, 22 hai con chim gáy hay hai con chim bồ cầu con, theo khả năng mình, một con dùng làm tế lễ chuộc tội và một con làm tế lễ thiêu.
23 Đến ngày thứ tám người ấy mang các con sinh tế làm lễ tẩy sạch cho mình đến cửa Trại Hội Kiến, trước mặt CHÚA. 24 Thầy tế lễ đem con chiên con dành làm tế lễ chuộc lỗi, cùng với lót dầu và đưa qua đưa lại trước mặt CHÚA làm tế lễ đưa qua đưa lại. 25 Rồi thầy tế lễ giết con chiên con làm lễ chuộc lỗi, lấy một ít huyết con chiên xức lên trái tai bên phải, trên ngón cái tay phải và ngón cái chân phải của người được tẩy sạch. 26 Thầy tế lễ đổ một ít dầu vào lòng bàn tay trái mình, 27 rồi dùng ngón trỏ của bàn tay phải rảy dầu lấy từ lòng bàn tay mình bảy lần trước mặt CHÚA. 28 Thầy tế lễ lấy một ít dầu từ lòng bàn tay mình, đem xức lên những chỗ đã xức huyết con sinh tế chuộc lỗi, tức là lên trái tai phải, ngón cái tay phải và ngón cái chân phải của người được tẩy sạch. 29 Phần dầu còn lại trong lòng bàn tay được thầy tế lễ đem xức lên đầu của người được tẩy sạch, để chuộc tội cho người ấy trước mặt CHÚA. 30 Sau đó thầy tế lễ dâng hai con chim gáy hay hai con chim bồ câu con, tùy theo khả năng của người ấy, 31 một con làm tế lễ chuộc tội và con kia làm tế lễ thiêu, cùng với tế lễ chay. Như vậy thầy tế lễ chuộc tội cho người ấy trước mặt CHÚA.
32 Đó là những luật lệ áp dụng cho người đã mắc bệnh phung, nhưng không đủ khả năng dâng các tế lễ để làm lễ tẩy sạch cho mình.
Tẩy Sạch Mốc Meo Trong Nhà
33 CHÚA phán dạy Môi-se và A-rôn: 34 Khi các ngươi vào đất Ca-na-an, là xứ Ta cho các ngươi làm sản nghiệp, nếu Ta giáng mốc meo trên một nhà nào trong xứ đó, 35 người chủ nhà phải đi trình với thầy tế lễ: tôi thấy trong nhà tôi có cái gì giống như mốc meo. 36 Trước khi vào khám nhà đó, thầy tế lễ ra lệnh đem hết đồ đạc trong nhà ra, để không có một món đồ đạc nào trong nhà bị tuyên bố là không tinh sạch. 37 Thầy tế lễ sẽ khám chỗ mốc meo trên tường; nếu thấy chỗ mốc meo có chỗ lõm màu xanh xanh hay đỏ đỏ và dường như sâu hơn mặt tường, 38 thầy tế lễ sẽ bước ra khỏi cửa nhà và niêm phong nhà lại trong bảy ngày. 39 Sau bảy ngày, thầy tế lễ trở lại để khám nhà. Nếu vết mốc meo lan rộng trên tường, 40 thầy tế lễ sẽ ra lệnh gỡ các tảng đá bị mốc meo và đem đi vứt vào một nơi không tinh sạch bên ngoài thành. 41 Thầy tế lễ sẽ bảo cạo tất cả các bức tường trong nhà, rồi hốt hết bụi cạo ra, đem đổ vào một nơi không tinh sạch bên ngoài thành. 42 Sau đó, cho người lấy đá khác thay thế các tảng đá đã gỡ bỏ và tô hồ trở lại.
43 Nếu sau khi đã gỡ bỏ đá, đã cạo sạch nhà và tô hồ lại mà mốc meo còn xuất hiện, 44 thầy tế lễ sẽ khám nhà đó và nếu thấy mốc meo đã lan rộng trong nhà, thì đó là chứng phung ăn lan và nhà đó không tinh sạch. 45 Người ta sẽ phá dỡ nhà ấy, đem đá, cây gỗ và hồ ra ngoài thành, đổ tại một nơi không tinh sạch.
46 Ai vào nhà trong khi bị niêm phong sẽ bị ô uế đến tối. 47 Ai ngủ hay ăn trong nhà ấy phải giặt quần áo mình.
48 Nhưng nếu khi khám nhà và thấy mốc meo không lan ra sau khi nhà đã được tô hồ, thầy tế lễ sẽ tuyên bố nhà ấy tinh sạch vì đã hết mốc meo. 49 Để tẩy sạch nhà, thầy tế lễ sẽ dùng hai con chim, một ít gỗ bá hương, chỉ sợi màu đỏ và cây bài hương. 50 Thầy tế lễ sẽ giết một con chim trong chậu đất trên dòng nước, 51 đem con chim còn sống, cùng với gỗ bá hương, cây bài hương và chỉ sợi màu đỏ nhúng vào huyết con chim đã bị giết và dòng nước chảy rồi rảy lên nhà bảy lần. 52 Thầy tế lễ sẽ tẩy sạch nhà với huyết chim, với dòng nước chảy, con chim sống, gỗ bá hương, cây bài hương và với chỉ sợi màu đỏ. 53 Sau đó thầy tế lễ thả con chim còn sống ra đồng trống, bên ngoài thành. Như vậy thầy tế lễ làm lễ chuộc tội cho nhà và nhà sẽ được tinh sạch.
54 Trên đây là những luật lệ áp dụng cho chứng bệnh phung và vết ngứa, 55 cho vết mốc meo trên quần áo hay trong nhà, 56 cho vết sưng, ung nhọt hay chỗ lở, 57 để xác định cái gì tinh sạch, cái gì không tinh sạch. Đó là luật lệ về các chứng phung.
Leviticus 14
King James Version
14 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
6 As for the living bird, he 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:
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord:
17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord.
19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the Lord.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord:
28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the Lord.
30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;
31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the Lord.
32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
33 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:
36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
51 And he 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:
52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
Leviticus 14
New King James Version
The Ritual for Cleansing Healed Lepers(A)
14 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This shall be the law of the [a]leper for the day of his cleansing: He (B)shall be brought to the priest. 3 And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine him; and indeed, if the [b]leprosy is healed in the leper, 4 then the priest shall command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living and clean birds, (C)cedar wood, (D)scarlet, and (E)hyssop. 5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. 6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. 7 And he shall (F)sprinkle it (G)seven times on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose in the open field. 8 He who is to be cleansed (H)shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and (I)wash himself in water, that he may be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, and (J)shall stay outside his tent seven days. 9 But on the (K)seventh day he shall shave all the hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows—all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes and wash his body in water, and he shall be clean.
10 “And on the eighth day (L)he shall take two male lambs without blemish, one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as (M)a grain offering, and one log of oil. 11 Then the priest who makes him clean shall present the man who is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. 12 And the priest shall take one male lamb and (N)offer it as a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and (O)wave them as a wave offering before the Lord. 13 Then he shall kill the lamb (P)in the place where he kills the sin offering and the burnt offering, in a holy place; for (Q)as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. (R)It is most holy. 14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it (S)on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. 16 Then the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall (T)sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. 17 And of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest shall put some on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the trespass offering. 18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. (U)So the priest shall make [c]atonement for him before the Lord.
19 “Then the priest shall offer (V)the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. 20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be (W)clean.
21 “But (X)if he is poor and cannot afford it, then he shall take one male lamb as a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, [d]one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, a log of oil, 22 (Y)and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford: one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. 23 (Z)He shall bring them to the priest on the eighth day for his cleansing, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, before the Lord. 24 (AA)And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the Lord. 25 Then he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, (AB)and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, 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 into the palm of his own left hand. 27 Then the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord. 28 And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering. 29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord. 30 And he shall offer one of (AC)the turtledoves or young pigeons, such as he can afford— 31 such as he is able to afford, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, with the grain offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before the Lord. 32 This is the law for one who had a leprous sore, who cannot afford (AD)the usual cleansing.”
The Law Concerning Leprous Houses
33 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: 34 (AE)“When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give you as a possession, and (AF)I put the [e]leprous plague in a house in the land of your possession, 35 and he who owns the house comes and tells the priest, saying, ‘It seems to me that there is (AG)some plague in the house,’ 36 then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes into it to examine the plague, that all that is in the house may not be made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to examine the house. 37 And he shall examine the plague; and indeed if the plague is on the walls of the house with ingrained streaks, greenish or reddish, which appear to be [f]deep in the wall, 38 then the priest shall go out of the house, to the door of the house, and [g]shut up the house seven days. 39 And the priest shall come again on the seventh day and look; and indeed if the plague has spread on the walls of the house, 40 then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which is the plague, and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city. 41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside, all around, and the dust that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city. 42 Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other mortar and plaster the house.
43 “Now if the plague comes back and breaks out in the house, after he has taken away the stones, after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered, 44 then the priest shall come and look; and indeed if the plague has spread in the house, it is (AH)an active leprosy in the house. It is unclean. 45 And he shall break down the house, its stones, its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place. 46 Moreover he who goes into the house at all while it is shut up shall be [h]unclean (AI)until evening. 47 And he who lies down in the house shall (AJ)wash his clothes, and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 “But if the priest comes in and examines it, and indeed the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. 49 And (AK)he shall take, to cleanse the house, two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. 50 Then he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water; 51 and he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, 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. 52 And he shall [i]cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and the running water and the living bird, with the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet. 53 Then he shall let the living bird loose outside the city in the open field, and (AL)make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
54 “This is the law for any (AM)leprous sore and scale, 55 for the (AN)leprosy of a garment (AO)and of a house, 56 (AP)for a swelling and a scab and a bright spot, 57 to (AQ)teach when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.”
Footnotes
- Leviticus 14:2 See note at 13:2
- Leviticus 14:3 Heb. saraath, disfiguring skin diseases, including leprosy, and so in vv. 2–32
- Leviticus 14:18 Lit. covering
- Leviticus 14:21 Approximately two dry quarts
- Leviticus 14:34 Decomposition by mildew, mold, dry rot, etc., and so in vv. 34–53
- Leviticus 14:37 Lit. lower than the wall
- Leviticus 14:38 quarantine
- Leviticus 14:46 defiled
- Leviticus 14:52 ceremonially cleanse
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