Chapter 14
1 And HaShem spoke unto Moses, saying:
2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his
cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest.
3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the
priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
4 then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be
cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
5 And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an
earthen vessel over running water.
6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the
cedar-wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living
bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from
the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let go the
living bird into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and
shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean; and
after that he may come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven
days.
9 And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all
his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall
shave off; and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water,
and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without
blemish, and one ewe-lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth
parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and one
log of oil.
11 And the priest that cleanseth him shall set the man that
is to be cleansed, and those things, before HaShem, at the door of the tent of
meeting.
12 And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer
him for a guilt-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering
before HaShem.
13 And he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they kill
the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as
the sin-offering is the priest's, so is the guilt-offering; it is most holy.
14 And the priest shall take of the blood of the
guilt-offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him
that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great
toe of his right foot.
15 And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it
into the palm of his own left hand.
16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that
is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times
before HaShem.
17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the
priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon
the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the
blood of the guilt-offering.
18 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he
shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed; and the priest shall make
atonement for him before HaShem.
19 And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make
atonement for him that is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness; and
afterward he shall kill the burnt-offering.
20 And the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the
meal-offering upon the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and
he shall be clean.
21 And if he be poor, and his means suffice not, then he
shall take one he-lamb for a guilt-offering to be waved, to make atonement for
him, and one tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering, and a log of oil;
22 and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as his
means suffice for; and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a
burnt-offering.
23 And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his
cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tent of meeting, before HaShem.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt-offering,
and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before
HaShem.
25 And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt-offering, and the
priest shall take of the blood of the guilt-offering, and put it upon the tip of
the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right
hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his
own left hand.
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some
of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before HaShem.
28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand
upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb
of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of
the blood of the guilt-offering.
29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he
shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him
before HaShem.
30 And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the
young pigeons, such as his means suffice for;
31 even such as his means suffice for, the one for a
sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with the meal-offering; and
the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before HaShem.
32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy,
whose means suffice not for that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
33 And HaShem spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:
34 When ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I give to
you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of
your possession;
35 then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the
priest, saying: 'There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house.'
36 And the priest shall command that they empty the house,
before the priest go in to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not
made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.
37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the
plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish,
and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall;
38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of
the house, and shut up the house seven days.
39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall
look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
40 then the priest shall command that they take out the
stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the
city.
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round
about, and they shall pour out the mortar that they scrape off without the city
into an unclean place.
42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the
place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the
house.
43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house,
after that the stones have been taken out, and after the house hath been
scraped, and after it is plastered;
44 then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if
the plague be spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house: it is
unclean.
45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and
the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them
forth out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that
it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and
he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 And if the priest shall come in, and look, and, behold,
the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; then the
priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and
cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
50 And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel
over running water.
51 And he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and 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.
52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird,
and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar-wood,
and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet.
53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into
the open field; so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.
54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and
for a scall;
55 and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house;
56 and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean; this is
the law of leprosy.
Sources: Portions copyright © 1997 by Benyamin Pilant, All Rights Reserved
JPS Electronic Edition, based on the 1917 JPS translation, Copyright © 1998 by Larry Nelson, All Rights Reserved
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