⁴Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

⁵And he shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters.

⁶But the other that is alive, he shall dip, with the cedar wood, and the scarlet and the hyssop, in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated:

⁷Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that is to be cleansed seven times, that he may be rightly purified. And he shall let go the living sparrow, that it may fly into the field.

⁸And when the man hath washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent seven days.

⁹And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and his beard and his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body. And having washed again his clothes, and his body,

¹⁰On the eighth day, he shall take two lambs without blemish, and an ewe of a year old without blemish, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.

¹¹And when the priest that purifieth the man, hath presented him, and all these things before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony:

¹²He shall take a lamb, and offer it for a trespass offering with the sextary of oil. And having offered all before the Lord,

¹³He shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in the holy place. For as that which is for sin, so also the victim for a trespass offering pertaineth to the priest: it is holy of holies.

¹⁴And the priest taking of the blood of the victim that was immolated for trespass, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot.

¹⁵And he shall pour of the sextary of oil into his own left hand,

¹⁶And shall dip his right finger in it, and sprinkle it before the Lord seven times.

¹⁷And the rest of the oil in his left hand, he shall pour upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, and upon the blood that was shed for trespass:

¹⁸And upon his head.

¹⁹And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and shall offer the sacrifice for sin. Then shall he immolate the holocaust.

²⁰And put it on the altar with the libations thereof: and the man shall be rightly cleansed.

²¹But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things aforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an offering for trespass, that the priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil:

²²And two turtles or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other for a holocaust.

²³And he shall offer them on the eighth day of his purification to the priest, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony before the Lord.

²⁴And the priest receiving the lamb for trespass, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together.

²⁵And the lamb being immolated, he shall put of the blood thereof upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot.

²⁶But he shall pour part of the oil into his own left hand,

²⁷And dipping the finger of his right hand in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord.

²⁸And he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, in the place of the blood that was shed for trespass.

²⁹And the other part of the oil that is in his left hand, he shall pour upon the head of the purified person, that he may appease the Lord for him.

³⁰And he shall offer a turtle, or young pigeon:

³¹One for trespass, and the other for a holocaust, with their libations.

³²This is the sacrifice of a leper, that is not able to have all things that appertain to his cleansing.

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