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[METZORA]

14 And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,

² This shall be the torat hametzora in the yom of his tohorah: he shall be brought unto the kohen;

³ And the kohen shall go forth outside the machaneh; and the kohen shall examine, and, hinei, if the nega tzara’at be healed in the afflicted person,

⁴ Then shall the kohen command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and tehorot (clean ones), and cedar wood, and scarlet thread, and hyssop;

⁵ And the kohen shall command that one of the birds be shachat in a clay vessel over mayim chayyim (running water);

⁶ As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet thread, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the dahm of the bird that was killed (shachat) over the mayim chayyim (running water);

⁷ And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be made tahor from the tzara’at seven times, and shall pronounce him tahor, and shall release the living bird into the open field.

⁸ And he that is to be made tahor shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in mayim, that he may be tahor; and after that he shall come into the machaneh, and shall wait outside of his ohel seven days.

⁹ But it shall be on the yom hashevi’i, 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 basar in mayim, and he shall be tahor.

¹⁰ And on the yom hashemini he shall take two kevasim temimim and one ewe lamb of the first year temimah, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a minchah, mixed with shemen, and one log of shemen.

¹¹ And the kohen who purifies shall present the ish that is to be made tahor, and those things, before Hashem, at the entrance of the Ohel Mo’ed;

¹² And the kohen shall take one keves (lamb), and sacrifice him for an asham (trespass offering), and the log of shemen, and wave them for a tenufah (wave offering) before Hashem;

¹³ And he shall slaughter (shachat) the keves in the place where he shall slaughter (shachat) the chattat (sin offering) and the olah (burnt offering), in the mekom hakodesh; for as the chattat (sin offering) belongs to the kohen, so does the asham (trespass offering); it is kodesh kodashim;

¹⁴ And the kohen shall take some of the dahm of the asham (trespass offering), and the kohen shall put it upon the lobe of the right ear of him that is to be made tahor, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the bohen of his right foot;

¹⁵ And the kohen shall take some of the log of shemen, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand;

¹⁶ And the kohen shall dip his right forefinger in the shemen that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the shemen with his forefinger seven times before Hashem;

¹⁷ And of the rest of the shemen that is in his hand shall the kohen put upon the lobe of the right ear of him that is to be made tahor, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the bohen of his right foot, upon the dahm of the asham (trespass offering);

¹⁸ And the remnant of the shemen that is in the kohen’s hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be made tahor; and the kohen shall make kapporah for him before Hashem.

¹⁹ And the kohen shall offer the chattat (sin offering), and make kapporah for him that is to be made tahor from his tumah (uncleanness); and afterward he shall slaughter (shachat) the olah (burnt offering);

²⁰ And the kohen shall offer the olah (burnt offering) and the minchah upon the Mizbe’ach; and the kohen shall make kapporah for him, and he shall be tahor.

²¹ And if he be poor, and cannot afford otherwise, then he shall take one keves for an asham (trespass offering) to be waved, to make kapporah for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with shemen for a minchah, and a log of shemen;

²² And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a chattat (sin offering), and the other an olah (burnt offering).

²³ And he shall bring them on the yom hashemini for his tohorah unto the kohen, unto the entrance of the Ohel Mo’ed before Hashem.

²⁴ And the kohen shall take the keves (lamb) of the asham (trespass offering), and the log of shemen, and the kohen shall wave them for a tenufah (wave offering) before Hashem;

²⁵ And he shall slaughter (shachat) the keves of the asham (trespass offering), and the kohen shall take some of the dahm of the asham (trespass offering), and put it upon the lobe of the right ear of him that is to be made tahor, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the bohen of his right foot;

²⁶ And the kohen shall pour of the shemen into the palm of his own left hand;

²⁷ And the kohen shall sprinkle with his right forefinger some of the shemen that is in his left hand seven times before Hashem;

²⁸ And the kohen shall put of the shemen that is in his hand upon the lobe of the right ear of him that is to made tahor, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the bohen of his right foot, upon the mekom (place) of the dahm of the asham (trespass offering);

²⁹ And the rest of the shemen that is in the kohen’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be made tahor, to make kapporah for him before Hashem.

³⁰ And he shall sacrifice the one of the torim (turtledoves), or of the young pigeons, such as he can afford;

³¹ Even such as he is able to afford, the one for a chattat (sin offering), and the other for an olah, with the minchah; and the kohen shall make kapporah for him that is to be made tahor before Hashem.

³² This is the torah of him in whom is the nega tzara’at, who cannot afford that which pertaineth to his tohorah (cleansing).

³³ And Hashem spoke unto Moshe and unto Aharon, saying,

³⁴ When ye be come into Eretz Kena’an, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the nega tzara’at in a bais of the eretz of your possession;

³⁵ And he that owneth the bais shall come and tell the kohen, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a nega (plague) in the bais;

³⁶ Then the kohen shall command that they empty the bais, before the kohen go into it to examine the nega, that all that is in the bais be not made tamei; and afterward the kohen shall go in to examine the bais,

³⁷ And he shall examine the nega, and, hinei, if the nega be in the walls of the bais with depressions, greenish or reddish, which in appearance are deeper than the surface of the wall,

³⁸ Then the kohen shall go out of the bais to the entrance of the bais, and quarantine the bais seven days;

³⁹ And the kohen shall come again the yom hashevi’i, and shall inspect; and, hinei, if the nega be spread in the walls of the bais,

⁴⁰ Then the kohen shall command that they tear down the stones in which the nega is, and they shall throw them into a makom tamei outside the town;

⁴¹ And he shall cause the bais to be scraped within around, and they shall pour out the afar (dust) that they scrape off outside the town into a makom tamei;

⁴² And they shall take other stones, and make them replace those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the bais.

⁴³ And if the nega come again, and break out in the bais, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the bais, and after it is plastered,

⁴⁴ Then the kohen shall come and inspect, and, hinei, if the nega be spread in the bais, it is a malignant tzara’at in the bais; it is tamei.

⁴⁵ And he shall tear down the bais, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the bais; and he shall carry them forth out of the town into a makom tamei.

⁴⁶ Moreover he that goeth into the bais all the while that it is quarantined shall be tamei until erev.

⁴⁷ And he that reclineth in the bais shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the bais shall wash his clothes.

⁴⁸ And if the kohen shall come in, and examine it, and, hinei, the nega hath not spread in the bais, after the bais was plastered, then the kohen shall pronounce the bais tahor (clean), because the nega is healed.

⁴⁹ And he shall take to purify the bais two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet thread, and hyssop;

⁵⁰ And he shall kill (shachat) the one of the birds in a clay vessel over mayim chayyim (running water);

⁵¹ And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet thread, and the living bird, and dip them in the dahm of the slain bird, and in the mayim chayyim (running water), and sprinkle the bais seven times;

⁵² And he shall cleanse the bais with the dahm of the bird, and with the mayim hachayyim (running water), and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet thread;

⁵³ But he shall release the living bird outside the town into the open field, and make kapporah for the bais; and it shall be tahor.

⁵⁴ This is the torah for all manner of nega tzara’at, and nesek (scale),

⁵⁵ And for the tzara’at of a garment, and of a bais,

⁵⁶ And for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot

⁵⁷ To teach when it is tamei, and when it is tahor: this is the torat tzara’at.

15 And Hashem spoke unto Moshe and to Aharon, saying,

² Speak unto the Bnei Yisroel, and say unto them, When any ish hath a discharge from his basar, because of his discharge he is tamei.

³ And this shall be his tumah (uncleanness) in his discharge: whether his basar run with his discharge, or his basar has stopped from his discharge, it is his tumah (uncleanness).

⁴ Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the discharge, is tamei; and everything, whereon he sitteth, shall be tamei.

⁵ And whosoever toucheth his bed shall immerse his garments, and immerse himself in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

⁶ And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the discharge shall immerse his garments, and immerse himself in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

⁷ And he that toucheth the basar of him that hath the discharge shall immerse his garments, and immerse himself in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

⁸ And if he that hath the discharge spit upon him that is tahor, then he shall immerse his garments, and immerse himself in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

⁹ And whatsoever riding seat he rideth upon that hath the discharge shall be tamei.

¹⁰ And whosoever toucheth anything that was under him shall be tamei until the erev; and he that picks up any of those things shall immerse his garments, and immerse himself in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

¹¹ And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the discharge, and hath not rinsed his hands in mayim, he shall immerse his garments, and immerse himself in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

¹² And the clay pottery, that he toucheth which hath the discharge, shall be broken; and every wooden vessel shall be rinsed in mayim.

¹³ And when he that hath a discharge is made tahor of his discharge; then he shall number to himself seven days for his tohorah (cleansing), and immerse his garments, and immerse his basar in running mayim, and shall be tahor.

¹⁴ And on the yom shemini he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before Hashem unto the entrance of the Ohel Mo’ed, and give them unto the kohen;

¹⁵ And the kohen shall sacrifice them, the one for a chattat, and the other for an olah (burnt offering); and the kohen shall make kapporah for him before Hashem for his discharge.

¹⁶ And if any ish [baal keri, a person with a discharge of semen], if his shikhvat zera (emission of semen) go out from him, then he shall immerse his entire body in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

¹⁷ And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the shikhvat zera, shall be immersed with mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

¹⁸ The isha also with whom ish shall lie with shikhvat zera, they shall both immerse themselves in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

¹⁹ And if an isha have a discharge, and her discharge in her body be dahm, she shall be in her state of niddah (state of menstrual separation) seven days; and whosoever toucheth her shall be tamei until the erev.

²⁰ And everything that she lieth upon in her niddah shall be tamei; everything also that she sitteth upon shall be tamei.

²¹ And whosoever toucheth her bed shall immerse his garments, and immerse himself in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

²² And whosoever toucheth anything that she sat upon shall immerse his garments, and immerse himself in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

²³ And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be tamei until the erev.

²⁴ And if any ish lie with her at all, and her niddah (menstrual flow) be upon him, he shall be tamei seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be tamei.

²⁵ And if an isha have a discharge of her dahm many days out of the time of her niddah, or if it run beyond the time of her niddah, all the days of the discharge of her tumah shall be as the days of her niddah; she shall be tamei.

²⁶ Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her discharge shall be unto her as the bed of her niddah; and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be tamei, as the tumah of her niddah.

²⁷ And whosoever toucheth those things shall be tamei, and shall immerse his garments, and immerse himself in mayim, and be tamei until the erev.

²⁸ But if she be tohorah of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be tohorah.

²⁹ And on the yom shemini she shall take unto her two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the kohen, to the entrance of the Ohel Mo’ed.

³⁰ And the kohen shall sacrifice the one for a chattat, and the other for an olah (burnt offering); and the kohen shall make kapporah for her before Hashem for the discharge of her tumah.

³¹ Thus shall ye separate the Bnei Yisroel from their tumah; that they die not in their tumah, when they defile My Mishkan that is among them.

³² This is the torah of him that hath a discharge, and of him whose shikhvat zera goeth from him, and is made tamei therewith;

³³ And of her that suffers through her niddah, and of him that hath a discharge, of the zachar, and of the nekevah, and of him that lieth with her that is tameiah.