Leviticus 13 - 14
Statutes About Leprosy
13Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2“When a man has on the skin of his 1body a swelling or a scab or a bright spot, and it becomes 2an infection of leprosy on the skin of his 3body, athen he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests. 3“Then the priest shall look at the mark on the skin of the 1body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of his 2body, it is an infection of leprosy; when the priest has looked at him, he shall pronounce him unclean. 4“But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his 1body, and 2it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair on it has not turned white, then the priest shall 3isolate him who has the infection for seven days. 5“Then the priest shall look at him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the infection 1has not changed and the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall 2isolate him for seven more days. 6“And the priest shall look at him again on the seventh day, and if the infection has faded and the mark has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab. And he shall awash his clothes and be clean.
7“But if the scab spreads farther on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again to the priest. 8“And the priest shall look, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.
9“When the infection of leprosy is on a man, then he shall be brought to the priest. 10“The priest shall then look, and if there is a awhite swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh still alive in the swelling, 11it is 1a chronic leprosy on the skin of his 2body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not 3isolate him, for he is unclean. 12“But if the leprosy breaks out farther on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of him who has the infection from his head even to his feet, 1as far as the priest can see, 13then the priest shall look, and behold, if the leprosy has covered all his 1body, he shall pronounce clean him who has the infection; it has all turned white, and he is clean. 14“But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean. 15“And the priest shall look at the raw flesh, and he shall pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean; it is leprosy. 16“Or if the raw flesh turns again and is changed to white, then he shall acome to the priest, 17and the priest shall look at him, and behold, if the infection has turned to white, then the priest shall pronounce clean him who has the infection; he is clean.
18“When the 1body has a boil on its skin and it is healed, 19and in the place of the boil there is a white swelling or a reddish-white bright spot, then it shall be shown to the priest; 20and the priest shall look, and behold, if 1it appears to be lower than the skin, and the hair on it has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the infection of leprosy; it has broken out in the boil. 21“But if the priest looks at it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it is not lower than the skin and is faded, then the priest shall 1isolate him for seven days; 22and if it spreads farther on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection. 23“But if the bright spot remains in its place and does not spread, it is only the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
24“Or if the 1body sustains in its skin a burn by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish-white, or white, 25then the priest shall look at it. And if the hair in the bright spot has aturned white and it appears to be deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn. Therefore, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection of leprosy. 26“But if the priest looks at it, and behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is no 1deeper than the skin but is faded, then the priest shall 2isolate him for seven days; 27and the priest shall look at him on the seventh day. If it spreads farther in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection of leprosy. 28“But if the bright spot remains in its place and has not spread in the skin but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is only the scar of the burn.
29“Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard, 30then the priest shall look at the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin, and there is thin yellowish hair in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scale; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard. 31“But if the priest looks at the infection of the scale, and behold, it appears to be no deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall 1isolate the person with the scaly infection for seven days. 32“Now on the seventh day the priest shall look at the infection, and if the scale has not spread, and there is no yellowish hair in it, and the appearance of the scale is no deeper than the skin, 33then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the scale; and the priest shall 1isolate the person with the scale seven more days. 34“Then on the seventh day the priest shall look at the scale, and if the scale has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean. 35“But if the scale spreads farther in the skin after his cleansing, 36then the priest shall look at him, and if the scale has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellowish hair; he is unclean. 37“If in his sight the scale has remained, however, and black hair has grown in it, the scale has healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
38“When a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of the 1body, even white bright spots, 39then the priest shall look, and if the bright spots on the skin of their 1bodies are a faded white, it is 2eczema that has broken out on the skin; he is clean.
40“Now if a 1man loses the hair of his head, he is abald; he is clean. 41“And if his head becomes bald at the 1front and sides, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean. 42“But if on the bald head or the bald forehead, there occurs a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead. 43“Then athe priest shall look at him; and if the swelling of the infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the 1body, 44he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.
45“As for the leper who has the infection, his clothes shall be torn, and athe hair of his head shall be 1uncovered, and he shall bcover his mustache and call out, ‘cUnclean! Unclean!’ 46“He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his place of habitation shall be aoutside the camp.
47“When a garment has a 1mark of leprosy in it, whether it is a wool garment or a linen garment, 48whether in 1warp or woof, of linen or of wool, whether in leather or in any article made of leather, 49if the mark is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather or in the 1warp or in the woof or in any article of leather, it is a leprous mark and shall be shown to the priest. 50“Then athe priest shall look at the mark and shall 1isolate the article with the mark for seven days. 51“He shall then look at the mark on the seventh day; if the mark has spread in the garment, whether in the warp or in the woof or in the leather, whatever the purpose for which the leather is used, the mark is a 1leprous malignancy; it is unclean. 52“So he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or any article of leather in which the mark occurs, for it is a 1leprous malignancy; it shall be burned in the fire.
53“But if the priest shall look, and indeed the mark has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather, 54then the priest shall command them to wash the thing in which the mark occurs, and he shall 1isolate it for seven more days. 55“After the article with the mark has been washed, the priest shall again look, and if the mark has not changed its appearance, even though the mark has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire, whether an eating away has produced bareness on the top or on the front of it.
56“Then if the priest looks, and if the mark has faded after it has been washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment or out of the leather, whether from the warp or from the woof; 57and if it appears again in the garment, whether in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather, it is an outbreak; you shall burn the article with the mark in the fire. 58“Now the garment, whether the warp or the woof or any article of leather from which the mark has departed when you washed it, shall then be washed a second time and will be clean.”
59This is the law for the mark of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, whether in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.
Statutes for Cleansing a Leper
14Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. aNow he shall be brought to the priest, 3and the priest shall go aout to the outside of the camp. Thus the priest shall look, and if the 1infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper, 4then the priest shall give a command to take two live clean birds and acedar wood and a 1scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed. 5“The priest shall also give a command to slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over 1running water. 6“As for the live bird, he shall take it together with athe cedar wood and the 1scarlet string and the bhyssop, and he shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the 2running water. 7“aHe shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and he shall let the live bird go free over the open field. 8“aThe one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water and bbe clean. Now afterward, he may enter the camp, but he cshall stay outside his tent for seven days. 9“And it will be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his 1body in water and abe clean.
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 1ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one 2,alog of oil; 11and the priest who pronounces him clean shall present the man to be cleansed as well as 1these things before Yahweh at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 12“Then the priest shall take the one male lamb and bring it near for a aguilt offering, with the 1,blog of oil, and wave them as a cwave offering before Yahweh. 13“Next he shall slaughter the male lamb in athe place where they slaughter the sin offering and the burnt offering, at the place of the sanctuary—for the guilt offering, blike the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy. 14“The priest shall then take some of the blood of the aguilt offering, and the priest shall put it on bthe 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. 15“The priest shall also take some of the 1,alog of oil and pour it into his left palm; 16the priest shall then dip his right-hand finger into the oil that is in his left palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times before Yahweh. 17“Of the remaining oil which is in his palm, the priest shall put some on the right ear lobe 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 blood of the guilt offering; 18but the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm, he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed. So the priest shall make aatonement on his behalf before Yahweh. 19“The priest shall next offer the asin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterward, he shall slaughter the burnt offering. 20“And the priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and ahe will be clean.
21“aBut if he is poor and his 1means are insufficient, then he is to take one male lamb for a bguilt offering as a wave offering to make atonement for him, and one-tenth of an 2ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a 3,clog of oil, 22and two turtledoves or two young pigeons which 1are within his means, athe one shall be a bsin offering and the other a burnt offering. 23“aThen the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, before Yahweh. 24“And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and athe 1log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh. 25“Next he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest shall 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. 26“The priest shall also pour some of the oil into his left palm; 27and with his right-hand finger the priest shall sprinkle some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before Yahweh. 28“The priest shall then put some of the oil that is 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 place of the blood of the guilt offering. 29“Moreover, the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement on his behalf before Yahweh. 30“He shall then offer one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, 1which are within his means. 31“He shall offer what 1he can afford, athe one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. So the priest shall make atonement before Yahweh on behalf of the one to be cleansed. 32“This is the law for him in whom there is an infection of leprosy, whose 1means are limited for his cleansing.”
Statute for Cleansing a Leprous House
33Yahweh further spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
34“aWhen you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you for a possession, and I put a mark of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession, 35then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like aa mark of leprosy has become visible to me in the house.’ 36“The priest shall then command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the mark, so that everything in the house need not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house. 37“So he shall look at the mark, and if the mark on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the surface of the wall, 38then the priest shall come out of the house, to the 1doorway, and 2put the house under isolation for seven days. 39“And the priest shall return on the seventh day and look again. If the mark has indeed spread in the walls of the house, 40then the priest shall command them to tear out the stones with the mark in them and throw them away 1at an unclean place outside the city. 41“And he shall have the house scraped all around 1inside, and they shall pour out the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city. 42“Then they shall take other stones and replace those stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.
43“If, however, the mark breaks out again in the house after he has torn out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered, 44then the priest shall come in and look again. If he sees that the mark has indeed spread in the house, it is aa 1leprous malignancy in the house; it is unclean. 45“He shall therefore tear down the house, its stones and its timbers and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an aunclean place. 46“Moreover, whoever goes into the house during the time that he has 1put it under isolation becomes aunclean until evening. 47“Likewise, whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48“If, on the other hand, the priest comes in and looks again, and the mark has not indeed spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the mark has 1not reappeared. 49“To cleanse the house then, he shall take atwo birds and cedar wood and a 1scarlet string and hyssop, 50and he shall slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over 1running water. 51“Then he shall take the cedar wood and the ahyssop and the 1scarlet string, with the live bird, and he shall dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird as well as in the 2running water, and he shall sprinkle the house seven times. 52“He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the 1running water, along with the live bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the 2scarlet string. 53“However, 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.”