Leviticus 12–15

CHAPTER 12

Atonement After Giving Birth

¹Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

²“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying:

‘When a woman ¹gives birth and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean for seven days, ^aas in the days of ²her menstruation she shall be unclean.

³‘Now on ^athe eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

⁴‘Then she shall remain in the blood of her cleansing for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any holy thing; and she shall not enter the sanctuary until the days of her cleansing are fulfilled.

⁵‘But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her ¹menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of her cleansing for sixty-six days.

⁶‘^aWhen the days of her cleansing are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent of meeting a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove ^bfor a sin offering.

⁷‘Then he shall bring it near before Yahweh and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the ¹flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, whether a male or a female.

⁸‘But if ¹she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take ^atwo turtledoves or two young pigeons, ^bthe one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the ^cpriest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

CHAPTER 13

Statutes About Leprosy

¹Then 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…