Dual Panel1WHEN the LORD spoke to Moses he said:
2This is the law concerning anyone suffering from a virulent skin disease. On the day when he is to be cleansed he is to be brought to the priest,
3who will go outside the camp and examine him. If the person has recovered from his disease,
4then the priest is to order two ritually clean small birds to be brought alive for the person who is to be cleansed, together with cedar-wood, scarlet thread, and marjoram.
5He must order one of the birds to be killed over an earthenware bowl containing fresh water.
6He will then take the live bird together with the cedar-wood, scarlet thread, and marjoram and dip them all in the blood of the bird that has been killed over the fresh water.
7He must sprinkle the blood seven times on the one who is to be cleansed from the skin disease and so cleanse him; the live bird he will release to fly away over the open country.
8The person to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, bathe in water, and so be ritually clean. He may then enter the camp, but must stay outside his tent for seven days.
9On the seventh day he must shave off all the hair on his head, his beard, and his eyebrows, and then shave the rest of his hair, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; then he will be ritually clean.
10On the eighth day he must bring two yearling rams and one yearling ewe, all three without blemish, a grain-offering of three tenths of an ephah of flour mixed with oil, and one log measure of oil.
11The officiating priest must place the person to be cleansed and his offerings before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
12The priest must take one of the rams and offer it with the log of oil as a reparation-offering, presenting them as a dedicated portion before the LORD.
13The ram must be slaughtered where the purification-offerings and the whole-offerings are slaughtered, within the sacred precincts, because the reparation-offering, like the purification-offering, belongs to the priest. It is most holy.
14The priest must then take some of the blood of the reparation-offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the person to be cleansed, and on his right thumb and the big toe of his right foot.
15He must next take the log of oil and pour some of it on the palm of his own left hand,
16dip his right forefinger into the oil on his left palm, and sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the LORD.
17He must then put some of the oil remaining on his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the person to be cleansed, on his right thumb, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the reparation-offering.
18The remainder of the oil on the priest's palm is to be put upon the head of the person to be cleansed, and thus the priest makes expiation for him before the LORD.
19The priest will then offer the purification-offering and make expiation for the uncleanness of the person who is to be cleansed. After this he must slaughter the whole-offering
20and offer it and the grain-offering on the altar. Thus the priest makes expiation for him, and he will be clean.
21If the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he must bring one young ram as a reparation-offering to be a dedicated portion making expiation for him, and a grain-offering of a tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with oil, and a log measure of oil,
22also two turtle-doves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford, one for a purification-offering and the other for a whole-offering.
23He must bring them on the eighth day to the priest for his cleansing, at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD.
24The priest will take the ram for the reparation-offering and the log of oil, and present them as a dedicated portion before the LORD.
25The ram for the reparation-offering must then be slaughtered, and the priest must take some of the blood of the reparation-offering, and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the man to be cleansed and on his right thumb and on the big toe of his right foot.
26The priest must pour some of the oil on the palm of his own left hand
27and sprinkle some of it with his right forefinger seven times before the LORD.
28He will then put some of the oil remaining on his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the man to be cleansed, and on his right thumb and on the big toe of his right foot exactly where the blood of the reparation-offering was put.
29The remainder of the oil on the priest's palm is to be put upon the head of the person to be cleansed to make expiation for him before the LORD.
30Of the birds which the person has been able to afford, turtle-doves or pigeons, whichever it may be, the priest must deal with one as a purification-offering and with the other as a whole-offering and make the grain-offering with them. Thus the priest makes expiation before the LORD for the person who is to be cleansed.
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32Such is the law for anyone with a virulent skin disease who cannot afford the regular offering for his cleansing.
33When the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron he said:
34When you have entered Canaan, which I am giving you to occupy, if I inflict a fungous infection upon a house in the land you have occupied,
35the owner must come and report to the priest that there appears to him to be a patch of infection in his house.
36The priest must order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the infection, or everything in it will become unclean. After this the priest must go in to inspect the house.
37If on inspection he finds the patch on the walls consists of greenish or reddish depressions, apparently going deeper than the surface,
38he is to go out of the house, and at the entrance put it in quarantine for seven days.
39On the seventh day he must return and inspect the house, and if the patch has spread in the walls,
40he must order the infected stones to be pulled out and thrown away outside the town in an unclean place.
41He must then have the house scraped inside throughout, and all the daub they have scraped off is to be tipped outside the town in an unclean place.
42They must take fresh stones to replace the others and replaster the house with fresh daub.
43If the infection reappears in the house and spreads after the stones have been pulled out and the house scraped and redaubed,
44the priest must come and inspect it. If the infection has spread in the house, it is a corrosive growth; the house is unclean.
45The house must be demolished, stones, timber, and daub, and everything must be taken away outside the town to an unclean place.
46Anyone who has entered the house during the time it has been in quarantine will be unclean till evening.
47Anyone who has slept or eaten a meal in the house must wash his clothes.
48If, when the priest goes into the house and inspects it, he finds that the infection has not spread after the redaubing, then he must pronounce the house ritually clean, because the infection has been cured.
49In order to rid the house of impurity, the priest must take two small birds along with cedar-wood, scarlet thread, and marjoram.
50He must kill one of the birds over an earthenware bowl containing fresh water.
51He must then take the cedar-wood, marjoram, and scarlet thread, together with the live bird, dip them in the blood of the bird that has been killed and in the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52Thus he must purify the house, using the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar-wood, the marjoram, and the scarlet thread.
53He is to set the live bird free outside the town to fly away over the open country. So he will purify the house, and it will be clean.
54Such is the law for all virulent skin diseases, and for scale,
55for mould in clothes and fungus in houses,
56for a discoloration of the skin, scab, and inflammation,
57in deciding when these are pronounced unclean and when clean. It is the law for skin disease, mould, and fungus.