Leviticus 14:1–11

The Ritual for Cleansing Healed Lepers

14Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“This shall be the law of the ¹leper for the day of his cleansing: He ^ashall be brought to the priest. ³And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine him; and indeed, if the ²leprosy is healed in the leper, ⁴then the priest shall command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living and clean birds, ^bcedar wood, ^cscarlet, and ^dhyssop. ⁵And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. ⁶As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. ⁷And he shall ^esprinkle it ^fseven times on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose in the open field. ⁸He who is to be cleansed ^gshall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and ^hwash himself in water, that he may be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, and ⁱshall stay outside his tent seven days. ⁹But on the ^jseventh day he shall shave all the hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows—all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes and wash his body in water, and he shall be clean.

¹⁰“And on the eighth day ^khe shall take two male lambs without blemish, one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as ^la grain offering, and one log of oil. ¹¹Then the priest who makes him clean shall present the man who is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.