Open English Translation LEV Chapter 14

14 Then Yahweh told Mosheh:

2 These are the regulations for the purification of a person who had a skin disease. They must be taken to a priest[ref] 3 who’ll go outside the camp to meet them. The priest must inspect that person, and if the skin disease has indeed left them, 4 then the priest will order them to bring him two live, ‘clean’ birds, some cedar wood, some scarlet thread, and some hyssop twigs. 5 The priest must tell the person to slaughter one bird so the blood runs into a clay jug containing water from a spring or creek. 6 Then the priest will take the live bird, along with the cedar wood, the scarlet thread, and the hyssop twigs, and dip them all into that blood of the slaughtered bird (mixed with the fresh water), 7 and flick it seven times onto the person who’s being purified from the skin disease. Then the priest can pronounce them as ‘clean’ enough to re-enter the community, and release the live bird to fly into the countryside. 8 The person who’s being purified must then wash their clothes, shave all their hair, and then bathe in flowing water. After that, they can re-enter the camp but must live outside their tent for seven more days. 9 On the seventh day, that person must shave off all their hair (including eyebrows and beard if appropriate), wash their clothes and bathe themself in flowing water, then they’ll be ‘clean’.

10 Then on the eighth day, that person must get two one-year-old male lambs, and one female lamb, all with no defects, along with three kilograms of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, as well as half a litre of olive oil. 11 That must be taken to the priest who’d pronounced them as ‘clean’ will accompany them and all those offerings to stand in front of Yahweh at the entrance to the sacred tent. 12 Then the priest must take one of the male lambs and the container of oil and present it as a guilt offering, then he’ll raise them as a wave offering in front of Yahweh. 13 Then that person must slaughter that lamb in the sacred place where sin offerings and burnt offerings are slaughtered, because this guilt offering is like a sin offering in that it’s for the priest—it’s very sacred. 14 Then the priest must take some of the blood from that guilt offering, and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the person being purified, and on their right thumb and right big toe. 15 Then the priest must take the container of olive oil and pour some into his left hand. 16 Then he’ll dip his right finger into that oil on his left palm, and with that same finger, flick it seven times towards Yahweh. 17 Then the priest must put some of the remaining oil on his palm onto the lobe of the right ear of the person being purified, and on their right thumb and right big toe—on top of the blood from the guilt offering. 18 Then the priest will put all the remaining oil from his palm onto the head of the person being purified, and the priest will then make that person right with Yahweh.

19 Then the priest must make the sin offering and make that person right after being purified from their ‘uncleanness’. After that that person will slaughter lamb for the burnt offering. 20 Then the priest must offer that burnt offering and the grain offering on the fire on the altar and he will make that person right again and he will be ‘clean’.

21 However, if that person is poor and cannot afford the multiple lambs, then they must take one lamb to wave as the guilt offering and to make them right again, along with one kilogram of fine flour mixed with oil for the grain offering, and the half litre of oil, 22 plus two doves or young pigeons—whichever they can afford—one for a sin offering and the other for the burnt offering. 23 Then on that eighth day, he’ll take them to the priest at the entrance of the sacred tent for purification in front of Yahweh. 24 Then the priest should take the guilt offering lamb and the container of oil and lift them up as a wave offering in front of Yahweh. 25 Then the person should slaughter that guilt offering lamb, and the priest must take some of that blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the person being purified, and on their right thumb and right big toe. 26 Then he must pour some of the oil onto his left palm 27 and with his right finger he must flick it seven times towards Yahweh. 28 Then the priest must put some of the oil from his palm onto the lobe of the right ear of the person being purified, and on their right thumb and right big toe—on top of the blood from the guilt offering. 29 Then the priest will put all the remaining oil from his palm onto the head of the person being purified, and the priest will then make that person right with Yahweh. 30 Then he must offer one of the birds (dove or pigeon—whatever that person could afford) 31 as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering along with the grain offering and he will make that person right again with Yahweh. 32 The above are the regulations for anyone who has a skin disease but who couldn’t afford the regular purification offerings.

33 Then Yahweh told Mosheh and Aharon:

34 “When you enter into the land of Kanaan which I’m giving you all as a possession, and if I cause an infection in one your homes in that land, 35 then the homeowner must go and inform the priest that something like an infection has appeared in their house. 36 The priest must order that everything be removed out of the house before he comes to inspect it so that it won’t all be pronounced as ‘unclean’. After that’s done, he’ll go to see the house 37 and examine the growth. If the growth is greenish or reddish and seems more than surface deep, 38 then the priest must leave the house via the main entrance and quarantine the house for seven days. 39 On the seventh day, the priest must return and examine it again, and if the growth has spread on the house walls, 40 then he must order that those infected stones be pulled out of the wall and thrown outside the city into a place that’s considered ‘unclean’. 41 Then the homeowner must scrape all the plaster off the inside walls and also dispose of that at that ‘unclean’ place. 42 Then they can replace the stones that were removed, and apply fresh plaster to the house.

43 However, if the growth returns and breaks out again in the house even after the stones were replaced and the walls were replastered, 44 then the priest must come back and reexamine it. If the growth has spread on the walls, then it’s a malignant growth and the house is ‘unclean’. 45 The owner must tear the house down—its stones and timber and all the mortar, must be carted outside the city into a place that’s considered ‘unclean’. 46 Any person that enters that house after the priest had quarantined it, will be ‘unclean’ until that evening. 47 Any person who lies down or eats in that house, must wash their clothes.

48 However, if the priest came back after the house was replastered and after his inspection, find that the growth hasn’t reappeared, then he can pronounce the house as ‘clean’ because the growth has gone. 49 Then he must take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet thread, and some hyssop twigs, 50 and slaughter one bird so the blood runs into a clay jug containing water from a spring or creek. 51 Then the priest must take the live bird, along with the cedar wood, the scarlet thread, the hyssop twigs and the live bird, and dip them all into that blood of the slaughtered bird (mixed with the fresh water), and flick it seven times onto the house. 52 In that way, he’ll purify the house with the bird’s blood and the fresh water, and with the live bird and the cedar wood, the hyssop twigs and the scarlet thread. 53 Then he must release the live bird to fly into the countryside, thus making the house right with God, and then it’ll be ‘clean’.

54 The above are the regulations concerning any serious skin diseases and itchiness, 55 as well as growths on clothing and buildings 56 and swellings, rashes, and bright spots on the skin, 57 so that you’ll know how to determine what’s ‘unclean’ or ‘clean’. Those are the regulations for infectious growths.