Leviticus 14 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying:
"This will be the for the person with a on the day they are declared clean. They must be brought to the priest,
and the priest will go outside the The priest will examine the person, and if the skin disease has healed,
the priest will order that two live, be brought for the one being cleansed, along with cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and
The priest will order that one of the birds be slaughtered over in a clay pot.
He will then take the live bird along with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and dip them together with the live bird into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
He will sprinkle it on the one being cleansed from the skin disease and declare them clean. Then he will release the live bird into the
"The one being cleansed must wash their clothes, shave off all their hair, and bathe in water. Then they will be After that, they may come into the camp, but they must stay outside their tent for seven days.
On the seventh day they must shave off all their hair — their head, their beard, their eyebrows — all their hair. They must wash their clothes and bathe their body in water, and they will be clean.
"On the eighth day they must bring two male lambs one female lamb a year old defect, three-tenths of an of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one of oil.
The priest who performs the cleansing will present the person being cleansed and these offerings before Yahweh at the entrance to the
The priest will take one of the male lambs and present it as a along with the log of oil; he will them as a before Yahweh.
He will slaughter the lamb in the place where the and the are slaughtered, in the area for God. Like the the guilt belongs to the priest — it is
The priest will take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the earlobe of the person being cleansed, on the thumb of their hand, and on the big toe of their
The priest will take some of the log of oil and pour it into his own left palm.
Then the priest will dip his right finger into the oil in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.
The priest will put some of the remaining oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood from the guilt offering.
The rest of the oil in the priest's palm he will put on the head of the one being cleansed. In this way the priest will for them before Yahweh.
"The priest will then offer the failure offering and make things right for the one being cleansed from their condition of After that, he will slaughter the burnt offering,
and the priest will offer the burnt and the on the altar. The priest will make things right for them, and they will be clean.
"If the person is poor and cannot afford all this, they will take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make things right for them, along with one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, a log of oil,
and or — whatever they can afford. One will be a failure offering and the other a burnt offering.
On the eighth day they will bring them to the priest at the entrance to the meeting tent, before Yahweh, for their cleansing.
The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil and wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh.
He will slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering. The priest will take some of its blood and put it on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot.
Then the priest will pour some of the oil into his own left palm,
and with his right finger the priest will sprinkle some of the oil from his left palm seven times before Yahweh.
The priest will put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot — on top of the blood from the guilt offering.
The rest of the oil in the priest's palm he will put on the head of the one being cleansed, to make things right for them before Yahweh.
Then he will offer one of the turtledoves or young pigeons — whichever the person could afford —
whichever they could afford: one as a failure offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. The priest will make things right before Yahweh for the one being cleansed."
This is the instruction for anyone who has a serious skin disease and cannot afford the standard offerings for their cleansing.
Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am you as your own, and I put an outbreak of in a house in the land you possess,
the owner of the house must come and tell the priest, 'Something that looks like contamination has appeared in my house.'
The priest will order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the contamination, so that nothing in the house will be declared After that, the priest will go in to inspect the house.
He will examine the contamination, and if there are greenish or reddish streaks on the walls that appear to go deeper than the surface,
the priest will go out to the entrance of the house and seal it up for seven days.
On the seventh day the priest will return and inspect the house. If the contamination has spread on the walls,
the priest will order that the contaminated stones be removed and thrown into a outside the town.
He will have the inside walls of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that is scraped off must be dumped in the designated unclean area outside the town.
They will take new stones and replace the old ones, and he will replaster the house with fresh plaster.
"If the contamination comes back and breaks out in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and replastered,
the priest will come and inspect it. If the has spread in the house, it is a — the house is unfit.
The house must be torn down — its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster — and everything must be taken to the designated unclean area outside the town.
Anyone who enters the house during the entire time it is sealed up will be unfit until evening.
Anyone who sleeps in the house must wash their clothes, and anyone who eats in the house must wash their clothes.
"But if the priest comes and inspects the house, and the contamination has not spread after the house was replastered, the priest will declare the house clean, because the contamination is gone.
To the house, he will take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
He will slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.