CHAPTER 14

¹And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²“This shall be the teaching concerning the one struck with skin blanch on the day he becomes clean. He shall be brought to the priest, ³and the priest shall go outside the camp, and the priest shall see, and, look, if the affliction of skin blanch is healed in the afflicted one, ⁴the priest shall charge that there be taken for him who is cleansing himself two live pure birds and cedar wood and crimson stuff and hyssop. ⁵And the priest shall charge that one bird be slaughtered in an earthen vessel over fresh water. ⁶The living bird—he shall take it, and the cedar wood and the crimson stuff and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the slaughtered bird over fresh water. ⁷And he shall sprinkle upon him who is cleansing himself of the skin blanch seven times, and cleanse him, and he shall send out the living bird over the open field. ⁸And he who is cleansing himself shall launder his garments and shave his hair and wash in water and be clean. And afterward he shall come into the camp and sit outside his tent seven days. ⁹And it shall be, on the seventh day, he shall shave all the hair of his head and his beard and his eyebrows, and all his hair he shall shave, and he shall launder his garments and wash his flesh in water, and become clean. ¹⁰And on the eighth day he shall take two unblemished sheep and one unblemished yearling ewe and three-tenths of semolina flour, a grain offering mixed with oil, and one log of oil. ¹¹And the cleansing priest shall set the man cleansing himself, together with them, before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ¹²And the priest shall take the one sheep and bring it forward as a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and he shall elevate them as an elevation offering before the LORD. ¹³And he shall slaughter the sheep in the place where the offense offering is slaughtered, and the burnt offering in the place of the sacred zone, for offense offering and guilt offering alike are the priest’s. It is holy of holies. ¹⁴And the priest shall take from the blood of the guilt offering and the priest shall put it on the right earlobe of him who is cleansing himself and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. ¹⁵And the priest shall take from the log of oil and pour it into the left palm of the priest. ¹⁶And the priest shall dip his right finger into the oil that is in his palm and sprinkle from the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD. ¹⁷And from the rest of the oil that is in his palm the priest shall put on the right earlobe of the one who is cleansing himself and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, together with the blood of the guilt offering. ¹⁸And what remains of the oil that is in the palm of the priest he shall put on the head of the one who is cleansing himself, and the priest shall atone for him before the LORD. ¹⁹And the priest shall do the offense offering and atone for the one cleansing himself from his uncleanness, and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering. ²⁰And the priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar, and the priest shall atone for him, and he shall be clean. ²¹And if he is poor and his hand cannot attain, he shall take one sheep as guilt offering for an elevation offering to atone for himself, and one-tenth of semolina flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil, ²²and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, as his hand may attain, and one shall be an offense offering and one a burnt offering. ²³And he shall bring them on the eighth day of his cleansing to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting before the LORD. ²⁴And the priest shall take the sheep of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall elevate them as an elevation offering before the LORD. ²⁵And he shall slaughter the sheep of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take from the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one who is cleansing himself and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁶And from the oil the priest shall pour into the left palm of the priest. ²⁷And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger from the oil that is in his left palm seven times before the LORD. ²⁸And the priest shall put from the oil that is in his palm on the right earlobe of the one who is cleansing himself and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering. ²⁹And what remains of the oil that is in the palm of the priest he shall put on the head of the one who is cleansing himself to atone for him before the LORD. ³⁰And he shall do one of the turtledoves or of the young pigeons, from which his hand attains, that which his hand attains, ³¹the one for an offense offering and the other for a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. And the priest shall atone for the one who is cleansing himself before the LORD. ³²This is the teaching concerning him in whom there is an affliction of skin blanch whose hand cannot attain, when he is being cleansed.”

³³And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ³⁴“When you come into the land of Canaan which I am about to give you as a holding, and I put the scaly affliction in the house of the land of your holding, ³⁵he whose house it is shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like an affliction has appeared to me in the house.’ ³⁶And the priest shall charge that they clear the house so that nothing in the house is unclean before the priest comes to see the affliction, and afterward the priest shall come to see the house. ³⁷And if he sees the affliction and, look, the affliction is in the walls of the house, greenish or reddish hollows that seem lower than the wall, ³⁸the priest shall go out of the house to the entrance of the house and sequester the house seven days. ³⁹And the priest shall come back on the seventh day and see and, look, if the affliction has spread in the walls of the house, ⁴⁰the priest shall charge that they pull out the stones in which the affliction is and fling them outside the town into an unclean place. ⁴¹And the house shall be scraped from within all around, and they shall spill the earth that they scraped off outside the town into an unclean place. ⁴²And they shall take different stones and bring them in place of the stones, and different earth shall be taken and the house plastered. ⁴³And if the affliction comes back and erupts in the house after the pulling out of the stones and after the scraping of the house and after the plastering, ⁴⁴the priest shall come and see and, look, if the affliction has spread, it is malignant scale disease in the house. It is unclean. ⁴⁵And he shall raze the house, its stones, and its timbers and all the earth of the house, and he shall have it taken out beyond the town to an unclean place. ⁴⁶And whoever comes into the house all the days it is sequestered shall be unclean until evening. ⁴⁷And whoever lies in the house shall launder his garments, and whoever eats in the house shall launder his garments. ⁴⁸And if the priest in fact comes and sees and, look, the affliction has not spread in the house after the plastering of the house, the priest shall declare the house clean, for the affliction has been healed. ⁴⁹And he shall take to purge the house two birds and cedar wood and scarlet stuff and hyssop. ⁵⁰And he shall slaughter the one bird into an earthen vessel over fresh water. ⁵¹And he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet stuff and the living bird and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water and sprinkle on the house seven times. ⁵²And he shall purge the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet stuff. ⁵³And he shall send out the living bird beyond the town to the open field and atone for the house, and it shall be clean. ⁵⁴This is the teaching for every affliction of skin blanch and for scurf, ⁵⁵and for scale disease of garment and of house, ⁵⁶and for inflammation and for scab and for shiny spot, ⁵⁷to teach on the day of the unclean and on the day of the clean—this is the teaching concerning scale disease.”