1And Jehovah spake unto Moses , saying , 2This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing : he shall be brought unto the priest : 3and the priest shall go forth out of the camp ; and the priest shall look ; and , behold , if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper , 4then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two living clean birds , and cedar wood , and scarlet , and hyssop: 5and the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water . 6As for the living bird , he shall take it , and the cedar wood , and the scarlet , and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water : 7and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times , and shall pronounce him clean , and shall let go the living bird into the open field .
The Ritual of Cleansing
8And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair , and bathe himself in water ; and he shall be clean : and after that he shall come into the camp , but shall dwell outside his tent seven days . 9And it shall be on the seventh day , that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows , even all his hair he shall shave off : and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water , and he shall be clean .
The Offerings for Cleansing
10And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish , and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish , and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil , and one log of oil . 11And the priest that cleanseth him shall set the man that is to be cleansed , and those things, before Jehovah , at the door of the tent of meeting . 12And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a trespass-offering, and the log of oil , and wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah : 13and he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the sanctuary : for as the sin-offering is the priest ’s, so is the trespass-offering: it is most holy . 14And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed , and upon the thumb of his right hand , and upon the great toe of his right foot . 15And the priest shall take of the log of oil , and pour it into the palm of his own left hand ; 16and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand , and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah . 17And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed , and upon the thumb of his right hand , and upon the great toe of his right foot , upon the blood of the trespass-offering: 18and the rest of the oil that is in the priest ’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed : and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah . 19And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make atonement for him that is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness : and afterward he shall kill the burnt-offering; 20and the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the meal-offering upon the altar : and the priest shall make atonement for him , and he shall be clean .
The Cleansing of Houses
21And if he be poor , and cannot get so much , then he shall take one he-lamb for a trespass-offering to be waved , to make atonement for him , and one tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering, and a log of oil ; 22and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons , such as he is able to get ; and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering. 23And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing unto the priest , unto the door of the tent of meeting , before Jehovah : 24and the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the log of oil , and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah . 25And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed , and upon the thumb of his right hand , and upon the great toe of his right foot . 26And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand ; 27and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Jehovah : 28and the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed , and upon the thumb of his right hand , and upon the great toe of his right foot , upon the place of the blood of the trespass-offering: 29and the rest of the oil that is in the priest ’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed , to make atonement for him before Jehovah . 30And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons , such as he is able to get , 31even such as he is able to get , the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with the meal-offering: and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before Jehovah . 32This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy , who is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing . 33And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying , 34When ye are come into the land of Canaan , which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest , saying, There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house . 36And the priest shall command that they empty the house , before the priest goeth in to see the plague , that all that is in the house be not made unclean : and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house : 37and he shall look on the plague ; and , behold , if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall ; 38then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house , and shut up the house seven days . 39And the priest shall come again the seventh day , and shall look ; and , behold , if the plague be spread in the walls of the house ; 40then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is , and cast them into an unclean place without the city : 41and he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about , and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scrape off , without the city into an unclean place : 42and they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house . 43And if the plague come again , and break out in the house , after that he hath taken out the stones, and after he hath scraped the house , and after it is plastered ; 44then the priest shall come in and look ; and , behold , if the plague be spread in the house , it is a fretting leprosy in the house : it is unclean . 45And he shall break down the house , the stones of it , and the timber thereof , and all the mortar of the house ; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place . 46Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even . 47And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. 48And if the priest shall come in , and look , and , behold , the plague hath not spread in the house , after the house was plastered ; then the priest shall pronounce the house clean , because the plague is healed . 49And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds , and cedar-wood, and scarlet , and hyssop: 50and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water : 51and he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet , and the living bird , and dip them in the blood of the slain bird , and in the running water , and sprinkle the house seven times : 52and he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird , and with the running water , and with the living bird , and with the cedar-wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet : 53but he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field : so shall he make atonement for the house ; and it shall be clean . 54This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy , and for a scall , 55and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house , 56and for a rising , and for a scab , and for a bright spot; 57to teach when it is unclean , and when it is clean : this is the law of leprosy .