Levítico 14
Palabra de Dios para Todos
Purificación de las enfermedades de la piel
14 El SEÑOR le dijo a Moisés: 2 «Esta será la ley para la purificación[a] del que tenga una enfermedad peligrosa de la piel. La persona será llevada al sacerdote, 3 para que la examine afuera del campamento. Si ve que la enfermedad ha desaparecido, 4 entonces el sacerdote le ordenará al que se ha curado que traiga dos aves puras, un pedazo de madera de cedro, tela roja y un hisopo. 5 El sacerdote mandará matar una de las aves y derramará su sangre en una olla de barro con agua fresca. 6 Luego tomará el ave viva, la madera de cedro, la tela roja y el hisopo, y los mojará con la sangre del ave muerta sobre el agua fresca. 7 Rociará la sangre siete veces sobre el que está siendo purificado de la enfermedad de la piel, lo declarará puro y, en un sitio al aire libre, dejará libre al ave viva.
8 »Después la persona purificada lavará su ropa, se afeitará todo el cabello y se bañará con agua. Entonces quedará puro y podrá entrar de nuevo al campamento, pero tendrá que estar fuera de su carpa durante siete días. 9 Al octavo día debe afeitar todo su cabello, su barba y sus cejas, es decir, todo su pelo; lavará su ropa y bañará su cuerpo con agua y entonces quedará puro.
10 »En el octavo día esa persona debe tomar dos corderos sin defecto alguno, una cordera de un año de edad sin defecto alguno, 6 kilos de harina de la más alta calidad mezclada con aceite para una ofrenda de cereal, y un tercio de litro[b] de aceite de oliva. 11 A la entrada de la carpa del encuentro el sacerdote que purifica a la persona la presentará ante el SEÑOR, junto con las ofrendas. 12 Luego el sacerdote tomará uno de los corderos y lo presentará como sacrificio de restitución. En seguida, tomará el tercio de litro de aceite de oliva y con él hará ante el SEÑOR el movimiento de presentación de la ofrenda. 13 Después, matará al cordero en el sitio sagrado donde se degüellan los animales para los sacrificios por el pecado y para los sacrificios que deben quemarse completamente. El sacrificio de restitución es como el sacrificio por el pecado, será para el sacerdote. Es muy sagrado.
14 »El sacerdote tomará parte de la sangre del sacrificio de restitución y la pondrá en la oreja derecha, en el pulgar de la mano derecha y en el dedo gordo del pie derecho de la persona que se va a purificar. 15 Luego el sacerdote tomará parte del tercio de litro de aceite de oliva y lo echará en la palma de su mano izquierda, 16 untará su dedo derecho en el aceite de su mano izquierda y con ese dedo rociará aceite ante el SEÑOR siete veces. 17 De lo que queda en la palma de la mano del sacerdote, él untará aceite en la cabeza del que se purifica, en el pulgar derecho y en el dedo gordo del pie derecho, sobre la sangre del sacrificio de restitución. 18 El resto del aceite que quede en la palma de la mano del sacerdote será puesto sobre la cabeza de quien está siendo purificado y así el sacerdote lo purificará ante el SEÑOR.
19 »Luego el sacerdote hará el sacrificio por el pecado para purificar a la persona. Después de esto, se degollará al animal del sacrificio que debe quemarse completamente 20 y el sacerdote lo presentará en el altar junto con la ofrenda de cereal y así purificará a la persona.
21 »Pero si quien va a ser purificado es pobre y no puede pagar tanto, entonces traerá un cordero como sacrificio de restitución, el cual se ofrecerá con el movimiento de presentación de la ofrenda. Esta será una ofrenda para purificarlo. La persona, además, traerá 2 kilos de la mejor harina mezclada con aceite como ofrenda de cereal junto con un cuarto de litro de aceite de oliva 22 y dos tórtolas o dos palomas, las que pueda pagar. Una será para el sacrificio por el pecado y la otra será para el sacrificio que debe quemarse completamente.
23 »Al octavo día traerá estas ofrendas para su purificación y las entregará al sacerdote a la entrada de la carpa del encuentro, ante el SEÑOR. 24 Luego el sacerdote tomará el cordero del sacrificio de restitución y el aceite de oliva y hará ante el SEÑOR el movimiento de presentación de la ofrenda. 25 Luego degollará al cordero, y usando parte de la sangre del sacrificio, la untará en la oreja derecha, en el pulgar derecho y en el dedo gordo del pie derecho del que se purifica. 26 El sacerdote derramará parte del aceite en la palma de su mano izquierda 27 y con el dedo derecho rociará aceite ante el SEÑOR siete veces. 28 El resto del aceite que queda en la palma de la mano del sacerdote, lo pondrá en el lóbulo de la oreja derecha, en el pulgar derecho y en el dedo gordo del pie derecho del que está siendo purificado, sobre la sangre del sacrificio de restitución. 29 El resto del aceite que queda en la palma de la mano del sacerdote será puesto sobre la cabeza del que está siendo purificado y de esta manera el sacerdote lo purificará ante el SEÑOR.
30 »Luego el sacerdote presentará una de las tórtolas o palomas, según lo que la persona haya podido ofrendar. 31 Una será para la ofrenda de purificación y la otra para el sacrificio que debe quemarse completamente, junto a la ofrenda de cereal. De esta manera el sacerdote purificará a la persona ante el SEÑOR».
32 Esas son las leyes respecto a las personas con enfermedades peligrosas de la piel que no puedan pagar los sacrificios usuales de purificación.
Leyes sobre las casas que tengan moho
33 El SEÑOR les dijo a Moisés y a Aarón: 34 «Ustedes van a recibir en propiedad la tierra de Canaán. Cuando la ocupen, se puede dar el caso de que yo haga que salga moho en alguna de sus casas. 35 Entonces el dueño de la casa irá y le dirá al sacerdote: “He visto en mi casa algo que parece moho”. 36 Entonces el sacerdote ordenará que saquen todo de la casa antes de que él vaya a examinar el moho. Si ellos hacen esto, lo que está dentro de la casa no se volverá impuro[c]. Luego el sacerdote irá a examinar la casa, 37 observará el moho y si este consiste de puntos verdes o rojos que parecen profundos en la superficie de la pared, 38 entonces el sacerdote saldrá y clausurará la casa por siete días.
39 »El sacerdote volverá a examinar la casa al séptimo día. Si el moho se ha extendido, 40 entonces el sacerdote ordenará que quiten las piedras que tengan moho y las tiren fuera de la ciudad en un sitio impuro. 41 Luego el sacerdote hará raspar todo el interior de la casa. Se arrojará lo raspado en un sitio impuro en las afueras de la ciudad. 42 Luego tomarán otras piedras y las colocarán en lugar de las anteriores y recubrirán la casa con barro nuevo.
43 »Puede suceder que el moho vuelva y aparezca en la casa después de haber quitado las piedras, haber raspado la casa y haber puesto barro nuevo en ella. 44 Entonces el sacerdote debe venir y examinarlo. Si el moho que se extendió por la casa es un moho que destruye las cosas, la casa es impura. 45 La casa debe ser destruida y sus piedras, madera y barro deben ser llevados afuera de la ciudad a un sitio impuro. 46 Todo el que entre a la casa mientras esté cerrada quedará impuro hasta el atardecer, 47 y todo el que duerma o coma en la casa debe lavar su ropa.
48 »Si el sacerdote viene y el moho no se ha extendido en la casa, después de que se recubrió con barro nuevo, entonces el sacerdote declarará pura la casa porque el moho se ha ido.
49 »Para purificar la casa, el sacerdote traerá dos aves, un trozo de madera de cedro, una tela roja y un hisopo. 50 Él matará una de las aves en una olla de barro que tenga agua fresca. 51 Luego debe tomar el trozo de madera de cedro, la tela roja, el hisopo y la otra ave viva y los mojará con la sangre del ave que fue muerta sobre el agua fresca. Rociará la sangre siete veces sobre la casa. 52 De esta manera purificará la casa con la sangre del ave, el agua fresca, el ave viva, la madera de cedro, el hisopo y la tela roja. 53 Luego en un sitio al aire libre, fuera de la ciudad, dejará libre al ave viva. De esta manera purificará la casa».
54 Esas son las leyes para toda enfermedad peligrosa de la piel, 55 para el moho en la ropa o en las casas, 56 y para las llagas o manchas. 57 Esas leyes enseñan qué hacer cuando las cosas son puras o impuras y lo que hay que hacer en cuanto a una enfermedad de la piel.
Footnotes
- 14:2 purificación La referencia aquí es que la persona está apta para vivir en comunidad y participar de la adoración a Dios.
- 14:10 un tercio de litro Textualmente un log. Generalmente la medida en litros como se presenta en Levítico para el aceite textualmente se da en logs. Ver tabla de pesas y medidas.
- 14:36 impuro Aquí se refiere a que esos artículos no tendrán ninguna impureza que impida que quien los toque pueda participar en los actos de adoración a Dios.
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
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
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