Leviticus 14:1–11

Laws for Cleansing Lepers

14The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. ^sHe shall be brought to the priest, ³and the priest shall go ^tout of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person, ⁴the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live¹ clean birds and ^ucedarwood and ^vscarlet yarn and ^whyssop. ⁵And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh² water. ⁶He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. ⁷And he shall ^xsprinkle it ^yseven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall ^zlet the living bird go ^ainto the open field. ⁸And he who is to be cleansed ^bshall 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 ^clive outside his tent seven days. ⁹And ^don the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he ^bshall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

¹⁰“And on the eighth day he ^eshall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a ^fgrain offering of three tenths of an ephah³ of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log⁴ of oil. ¹¹And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.