Leviticus 14:1–11

Law of Cleansing a Leper

¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

²“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. ^aNow he shall be brought to the priest,

³and the priest shall go ^aout to the outside of the camp. Thus the priest shall look, and if the ¹infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper,

⁴then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds and ^acedar wood and a ¹scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.

⁵“The priest shall also give orders to slay the one bird in an earthenware vessel over ¹running water.

⁶“As for the live bird, he shall take it together with ^athe cedar wood and the ¹scarlet string and the ^bhyssop, and shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slain over the ²running water.

⁷“^aHe shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird go free over the open field.

⁸“^aThe one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water and ^bbe clean. Now afterward, he may enter the camp, but he ^cshall stay outside his tent for seven days.

⁹“It will be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his ¹body in water and ^abe clean.

¹⁰“Now on the eighth day he is to take two male lambs without defect, and a yearling ewe lamb without defect, and three-tenths of an ¹ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one ^2alog of oil;

¹¹and the priest who pronounces him clean shall present the man to be cleansed and the ¹aforesaid before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting.