Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This shall be the law of the leper on the day of his ceremonial cleansing. aHe shall be brought to the priest at a meeting place outside the camp;Matt 8:4; Mark 1:44; Luke 5:14; 17:14 3 the priest shall go aout of the camp to meet him; and the priest shall examine him, and if the leper has been healed of the infection of leprosy,Lev 13:46 4 then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds and acedar wood and scarlet string and 1hyssop for the one to be cleansed. Heb 9:19-22I.e. an aromatic plant.Lev 14:6, 49, 51, 52; Num 19:6 5 Next the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed as a sacrifice in an earthenware container over fresh 1running water.Lit living, an ancient concept probably based on motion as an indicator of life. 6 As for the live bird, he shall take it together with athe cedar wood and the scarlet string and the bhyssop, and shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird sacrificed over the running water.Lev 14:4Ps 51:7 7 aHe shall sprinkle the blood seven times on the one to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him ceremonially clean. Then he shall let the live bird go free over the open field. Heb 9:13-15Ezek 36:25 8 aThe one to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water; and he shall bbe clean. After that he may come into the camp, but he shall cstay outside of his tent for seven days.Lev 11:25; 13:6; Num 8:7Lev 14:9, 20Num 5:2, 3; 12:14, 15; 2 Chr 26:21 9 On the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair on his body. Then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and abe clean.Lev 14:8, 20
10 “Now on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and a yearling ewe lamb without blemish, and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, and one alog of oil;Lev 14:12, 15, 21, 24 11 and the priest who cleanses him shall present the man to be cleansed and his offerings before the LORD at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting. 12 Then the priest shall take one of the male lambs and offer it as a aguilt offering, with the blog of oil, and present them as a cwave offering before the LORD.Lev 5:6, 18; 6:6; 14:19Lev 14:10Ex 29:22-24, 26 13 He shall kill the male lamb in athe place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the sacred place the courtyard of the tabernacle; for the guilt offering, blike the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.Ex 29:11; Lev 1:11; 4:24Lev 6:24-30; 7:7 14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the aguilt offering and put it on the blobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.Lev 14:19Ex 29:20; Lev 8:23, 24 15 The priest shall also take some of the alog of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand;Lev 14:10 16 and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the LORD. 17 Of the rest of the oil which is in his palm, the priest shall put some on the lobe of the right ear of the one 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 The remaining oil that is in the priest’s palm shall be put on the head of the one to be cleansed. The priest shall make aatonement for him before the LORD.Lev 4:26; Num 15:28; Heb 2:17 19 Next the priest shall offer the asin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness, and afterward kill the burnt offering.Lev 14:12 20 The priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and ahe shall be clean.Lev 14:8, 9
21 “aBut if the cleansed leper is poor and his means are insufficient, then he is to take one lamb as a bguilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a clog of oil,Lev 5:11; 12:8; 27:8Lev 14:22Lev 14:10 22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he can afford, aone shall be a bsin offering, the other a burnt offering.Lev 5:7Lev 14:21, 24, 25 23 He shall bring them on athe eighth day for his ceremonial cleansing to the priest at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, before the LORD.Lev 14:10, 11 24 The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering, and athe log of oil, and shall present them as a wave offering before the LORD.Lev 14:10 25 Next he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on athe lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.Lev 14:14 26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into his left palm, 27 and with his right finger the priest shall sprinkle some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before the LORD. 28 The priest shall put some of the oil in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the places where he has put the blood of the guilt offering. 29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm shall be put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD. 30 Then he shall offer one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, which are within his means. 31 He shall offer what he can afford, aone as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. The priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the one to be cleansed.Lev 5:7 32 This is the law for the one in whom there is an infection of leprosy, 1whose means are limited for his ceremonial cleansing.”Lit whose hand does not reach.
33 The LORD further spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
34 “aWhen you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put 1a mark of leprosy on a house in your land,Possibly mildew or mold, and so throughout the chapter. See 13:47-59 for similar instructions regarding fabric, leather, and other articles.Gen 17:8; Num 32:22; Deut 7:1; 32:49 35 then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like aa mark of leprosy in my house.’Ps 91:10 36 The priest shall order that they empty the house before he goes in to examine the mark, so that everything in the house will not have to be declared unclean; afterward he shall go in to see the house. 37 He shall examine the mark, and if the mark on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the surface, 38 the priest shall go out of the house, to the doorway, and 1quarantine the house for seven days.Lit isolate. 39 The priest shall return on the seventh day and look; and if the mark has spread on the walls of the house, 40 he shall order them to tear out the contaminated stones and throw them into an unclean place outside the city. 41 He shall have the entire inside area of the house scraped, and the plaster that is scraped off shall be dumped in an unclean place outside the city. 42 Then they shall take new stones and replace the contaminated stones, and he shall take plaster and replaster the house.
43 “If, however, the mark breaks out again in the house after he has removed the stones and has scraped and replastered the house, 44 then the priest shall come and look again, and if the mark has spread in the house, it is aa malignant leprosy in the house; it is ceremonially unclean.Lev 13:51 45 He shall tear down the house—its stones and its timber and all the plaster of the house—and shall take everything outside the city to an aunclean place.Lev 14:41 46 Moreover, whoever goes into the house during the time that it is quarantined becomes aunclean until evening.Num 19:7, 10, 21, 22 47 And whoever lies down in the house to rest shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 “But if the priest comes in and inspects it and the mark has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house clean because the mark has not reappeared. 49 To cleanse the house then, he shall take atwo birds and cedar wood and scarlet string and hyssop;Lev 14:4 50 and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthenware container over running water, 51 and he shall take the cedar wood and the ahyssop and the scarlet string, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird as well as in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.1 Kin 4:33; Ps 51:7 52 So he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water, along with the live bird and the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet string. 53 But he shall let the live bird go free outside the city into the open field. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”
54 This is the law for any mark of leprosy—even for a ascale,Lev 13:30 55 and for the aleprous garment or house,Lev 13:47-52 56 and afor a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot on the skin—Lev 13:2 57 to teach when they are unclean and when they are clean. This is the law of leprosy in regard to both persons and property.