Leviticus 14:2–32

²“This is the law ⁱconcerning the person afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing. ^jHe is to be brought to the priest, ^k3who will go outside the camp ^land examine him. ^mIf the skin disease has disappeared from the afflicted person, ⁿ⁴the priest will order that two live clean birds, ^ocedar wood, ^pscarlet ^qyarn, and hyssop ^rbe brought for the one who is to be cleansed. ⁵Then the priest will order that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot. ⁶He is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them all into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water. ⁷He will then sprinkle the blood seven times on the one who is to be cleansed from the skin disease. He is to pronounce him clean and release the live bird over the open countryside. ^s8The one who is to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; he is clean. Afterward he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days. ⁹He is to shave off all his hair again on the seventh day: his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; he is clean.

¹⁰“On the eighth day he must take two unblemished ^tmale lambs, an unblemished year-old ewe lamb, a grain offering of three quarts ^uof fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one-third of a quart ^vof olive oil. ¹¹The priest who performs the cleansing will place the person who is to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. ¹²The priest is to take one male lamb and present it as a restitution offering, ^walong with the one-third quart ^xof olive oil, and he must wave them as a presentation offering ^ybefore the Lord. ¹³He is to slaughter the male lamb at the place in the sanctuary area where the sin offering ^zand burnt offering ^aare slaughtered, ^bfor like the sin offering, the restitution offering belongs to the priest; ^cit is especially holy. ^d14The priest is to take some of the blood from the restitution offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. ^e15Then the priest will take some of the one-third quart ^fof olive oil and pour it into his left palm. ¹⁶The 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 the Lord. ¹⁷From the oil remaining in his palm the priest will put some on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the restitution offering. ^g18What is left of the oil in the priest’s palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed. In this way the priest will make atonement for him before the Lord. ¹⁹The priest must sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. ^hAfterward he will slaughter the burnt offering. ²⁰The priest is to offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. The priest will make atonement for him, and he will be clean. ⁱ

²¹“But if he is poor ^jand cannot afford these, ^klhe is to take one male lamb for a restitution offering to be waved in order to make atonement for him, along with two quarts ^mof fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, one-third of a quart ⁿof olive oil, ²²and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whatever he can afford, ^oone to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. ²³On the eighth day he is to bring these things for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the Lord. ²⁴The priest will take the male lamb for the restitution offering and the one-third quart ^pof olive oil, and wave them as a presentation offering before the Lord. ²⁵After he slaughters the male lamb for the restitution offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the restitution offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁶Then the priest will pour some of the oil into his left palm. ²⁷With his right finger the priest will sprinkle some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the Lord. ²⁸The priest will also put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the same place as the blood of the restitution offering. ²⁹What is left of the oil in the priest’s palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed to make atonement for him before the Lord. ^q30He must then sacrifice one type of what he can afford, ^reither the turtledoves or young pigeons, ³¹one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, sacrificing what he can afford ^sttogether with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the Lord for the one to be cleansed. ³²This is the law for someone who has ^ua skin disease and cannot afford ^vthe cost of his cleansing.”