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If the disease is healed in the leprous<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3115b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> person, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>the priest shall command that two living clean birds and cedarwood and crimson yarn and hyssop be brought for the one who is to be cleansed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>The priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in an earthen vessel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>He shall take the living bird with the cedarwood and the crimson yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>He shall sprinkle it seven times upon the one who is to be cleansed of the leprous<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3119c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> disease; then he shall pronounce him clean, and he shall let the living bird go into the open field. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The one who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall live outside his tent seven days. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>On the seventh day he shall shave all his hair: of head, beard, eyebrows; he shall shave all his hair. Then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish, and a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of choice flour mixed with oil, and one log<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3122d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> of oil. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The priest who cleanses shall set the person to be cleansed, along with these things, before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The priest shall take one of the lambs, and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3124e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> of oil, and raise them as an elevation offering before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>He shall slaughter the lamb in the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered in the holy place; for the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest: it is most holy. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>The priest shall take some of the log<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3127f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>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 <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>the priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement on his behalf and he shall be clean.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be elevated, to make atonement on his behalf, and one-tenth of an ephah of choice flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and a log<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3133g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> of oil; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>also two turtledoves or two pigeons, such as he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>and the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3136h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> of oil, and the priest shall raise them as an elevation offering before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>The priest shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering and shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>The priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot, where the blood of the guilt offering was placed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement on his behalf before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>And he shall offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons such as he can afford, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>one<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3143i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering; and the priest shall make atonement before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> on behalf of the one being cleansed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>This is the ritual for the one who has a leprous<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3144j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote j">j</a>]</span> disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a leprous<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3146k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote k">k</a>]</span> disease in a house in the land of your possession, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, “There seems to me to be some sort of disease in my house.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>The priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, or all that is in the house will become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>He shall examine the disease; 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, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>the priest shall go outside to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>The priest shall come again on the seventh day and make an inspection; if the disease has spread in the walls of the house, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>the priest shall command that the stones in which the disease appears be taken out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>He shall have the inside of the house scraped thoroughly, and the plaster that is scraped off shall be dumped in an unclean place outside the city. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>They shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and take other plaster and plaster the house.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span>If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">44</span>the priest shall go and make inspection; if the disease has spread in the house, it is a spreading leprous<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3156l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote l">l</a>]</span> disease in the house; it is unclean. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">45</span>He shall have the house torn down, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and taken outside the city to an unclean place. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">46</span>All who enter the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">47</span>and all who sleep in the house shall wash their clothes; and all who eat in the house shall wash their clothes.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">48</span>If the priest comes and makes an inspection, and the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, the priest shall pronounce the house clean; the disease is healed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">49</span>For the cleansing of the house he shall take two birds, with cedarwood and crimson yarn and hyssop, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">50</span>and shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in an earthen vessel, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">51</span>and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the crimson yarn, along with the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">52</span>Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the fresh water, and with the living bird, and with the cedarwood and hyssop and crimson yarn; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">53</span>and he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field; so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">54</span>This is the ritual for any leprous<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3166m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote m">m</a>]</span> disease: for an itch, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">55</span>for leprous<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3167n" title="See footnote n">n</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote n">n</a>]</span> diseases in clothing and houses, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">56</span>and for a swelling or an eruption or a spot, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">57</span>to determine when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the ritual for leprous<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-3169o" title="See footnote o">o</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote o">o</a>]</span> diseases.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:2">Leviticus 14:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:3">Leviticus 14:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:7">Leviticus 14:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:10">Leviticus 14:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A liquid measure</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:12">Leviticus 14:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A liquid measure</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:15">Leviticus 14:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A liquid measure</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:21">Leviticus 14:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A liquid measure</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:24">Leviticus 14:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A liquid measure</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:31">Leviticus 14:31</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>afford, <span class="versenum">31</span>such as he can afford, one</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:32">Leviticus 14:32</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:34">Leviticus 14:34</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:44">Leviticus 14:44</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:54">Leviticus 14:54</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:55">Leviticus 14:55</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Leviticus 14:57">Leviticus 14:57</a> <span class='footnote-text'>A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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