Leviticus:14

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* Then the LORD spoke to Moses , saying , * "This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing : He shall be brought to the priest . * And the priest shall go out of the camp , and the priest shall examine him ; and indeed , if the leprosy is healed in the leper , * then the priest shall command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living and clean birds , cedar wood , scarlet , and hyssop . * And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water . * 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 . * And he shall sprinkle it 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 . * He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes , shave off all his hair , and wash himself in water , that he may be clean . After that he shall come into the camp , and shall stay outside his tent seven days . * But on the 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 . * "And on the eighth day 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 a grain offering , and one log of oil . * 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 . * And the priest shall take one male lamb and offer it as a trespass offering , and the log of oil , and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD . * Then he shall kill the lamb in the place where he kills the sin offering and the burnt offering , in a holy place ; for as the sin offering is the priest 's , so is the trespass offering . It is most holy . * The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering , and the priest shall 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 . * And the priest shall take some of the log of oil , and pour it into the palm of his own left hand . * Then the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand , and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD . * 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 . * 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 . So the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD . * "Then the priest shall offer the sin offering , and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness . Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering . * 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 clean . * "But 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 , one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering , a log of oil , * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Then 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 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 . * And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand . * Then the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD . * 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 . * 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 . * And he shall offer one of the turtledoves or young pigeons , such as he can afford -- * 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 . * This is the law for one who had a leprous sore , who cannot afford the usual cleansing ." * And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron , saying : * "When you have come into the land of Canaan , which I give you as a possession , and I put the leprous plague in a house in the land of your possession , * and he who owns the house comes and tells the priest , saying , "It seems to me that there is some plague in the house ,' * 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 . * 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 deep in the wall , * then the priest shall go out of the house , to the door of the house , and shut up the house seven days . * 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 , * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * "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 , * then the priest shall come and look ; and indeed if the plague has spread in the house , it is an active leprosy in the house . It is unclean . * 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 . * Moreover he who goes into the house at all while it is shut up shall be unclean until evening . * And he who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes , and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes . * "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 . * And he shall take , to cleanse the house , two birds , cedar wood , scarlet , and hyssop . * Then he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water ; * 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 . * And he shall 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 . * Then he shall let the living bird loose outside the city in the open field , and make atonement for the house , and it shall be clean . * "This is the law for any leprous sore and scale , * for the leprosy of a garment and of a house , * for a swelling and a scab and a bright spot , * to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean . This is the law of leprosy ."

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