Leviticus, 14

1. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

1. Yahweh spoke to Moses:

2. This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:

2. "This shall be the law for the leper on the day of his purification. He shall be brought to the priest

3. And 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;

3. and the priest shall take him outside the camp and examine him. And if the person has been healed from leprosy,

4. Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

4. the priest shall order two live, clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.

5. And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

5. The priest shall also give orders that one of the birds be slain on an earthenware pot over fresh water.

6. As 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:

6. He shall take the live bird and also the cedar wood, the crimson yarn and the hyssop, and he will plunge them together, including the live bird, in the blood of the bird that was slain over fresh water.

7. And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.

7. Then he will sprinkle the one to be purified seven times. After that he shall declare him clean and he shall let the live bird go free over the open fields.

8. And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.

8. The person to be purified must wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water; then he will be clean. After this he may enter the camp but he must stay outside his tent for seven days.

9. But 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, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

9. On the seventh day he shall shave off all the hair on his head, chin and eyebrows. He shall wash his clothes, bathe himself in water and then he will be clean.

10. And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.

10. On the eighth day he is to take two lambs and a yearling ewe lamb, all without defect, and three-tenths of a measure of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and a log of oil.

11. And the priest that maketh [him] clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

11. The priest who declares him clean shall present the man to be purified and his offerings before Yahweh at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

12. And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD:

12. The priest will then take the first lamb and present it as a guilt offering together with the log of oil. He shall wave them before Yahweh.

13. And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering [is] the priest's, [so is] the trespass offering: it [is] most holy:

13. He shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where they slaughter the sin offering and the burnt offering - the holy place. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

14. And the priest shall take [some] 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:

14. The priest shall then take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

15. And the priest shall take [some] of the log of oil, and pour [it] into the palm of his own left hand:

15. The priest shall take the log of oil and pour it on the palm of his own left hand.

16. And 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 the LORD:

16. Then, dipping his right forefinger in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh.

17. And 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:

17. Then he is to take a little of the oil that remains in the palm of his hand and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the man who is being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, over the blood of the sacrifice of reparation.

18. And the remnant of the oil that [is] in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.

18. The rest of the oil which is in his palm, he shall put on the head of the man who is being purified. In this way he shall perform over him the rite of atonement before Yahweh.

19. And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:

19. Then the priest shall offer the sacrifice for sin, and perform the rite of atonement for the man who is being purified. After this he must slaughter the animal for the burnt offering

20. And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

20. and offer it with the grain offering on the altar. When the priest has performed the rite of atonement over him in this way, the man will be clean.

21. And if he [be] poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb [for] a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;

21. If the leper is poor and cannot afford all this, he shall take only one lamb for the guilt offering to be offered with the gesture of offering in the rite of atonement. And for the grain offering he will bring only one tenth of wheaten flour mixed with oil, and the log of oil,

22. And two turtledoves, 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.

22. and finally two turtledoves or two young pigeons - if he can afford them - one to be used as a sacrifice for sin and the other for the burnt offering.

23. And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.

23. On the eighth day he must bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, for his purification.

24. And 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 the LORD:

24. The priest is to take the lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil, and present them before Yahweh with the gesture of offering.

25. And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take [some] 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:

25. Then he must slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering, take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the man who is being purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

26. And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:

26. He is to pour the oil into the palm of his left hand,

27. And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger [some] of the oil that [is] in his left hand seven times before the LORD:

27. and with this oil he must make seven sprinklings with his finger before Yahweh.

28. And 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:

28. He is to put some of it on the lobe of the right ear of the man who is being purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot as he did with the blood of the guilt offering.

29. And 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 an atonement for him before the LORD.

29. The remainder of the oil in the palm of his hand he must put on the head of the man who is being purified, performing the rite of atonement over him before Yahweh.

30. And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;

30. Of the two turtledoves or two young pigeons - if he can afford them - he is to offer

31. [Even] such as he is able to get, the one [for] a sin offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.

31. a sacrifice for sin with one, and with the other a burnt offering together with a grain offering - if he can afford them. In this way the priest will have performed before Yahweh the rite of atonement over the person who is being purified.

32. This [is] the law [of him] in whom [is] the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get [that which pertaineth] to his cleansing.

32. Such is the law concerning a person afflicted by leprosy who cannot afford the means for his purification."

33. And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

33. Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron; he said:

34. When ye be 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;

34. "When you reach the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your inheritance, if I strike a house with mildew in the land you are to possess,

35. And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me [there is] as it were a plague in the house:

35. the owner must come and warn the priest; he must say, 'I have seen something like mildew in the house.'

36. Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go [into it] 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:

36. The priest is to give orders for the house to be emptied before he goes to examine the infection; thus nothing in the house will be declared unclean. Then the priest must go and look at the house;

37. And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, [if] the plague [be] in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight [are] lower than the wall;

37. and if on examination he finds reddish or greenish spots that appear to be eating into the wall,

38. Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:

38. the priest is to go out of the house, to the door, and shut it up for seven days.

39. And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

39. On the seventh day he shall go back again and if on examination he finds that the infection has spread over the walls of the house,

40. Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague [is], and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:

40. he shall give orders for the affected stones to be removed and thrown into some unclean place outside the town.

41. And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:

41. Then he shall have all the inside of the house scraped, and the plaster that comes off must be emptied out into an unclean place outside the town.

42. And they shall take other stones, and put [them] in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.

42. The stones must be replaced by new ones and the house given a new coat of plaster.

43. And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;

43. If the infection spreads again after the stones have been removed and the house scraped and replastered,

44. Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the house, it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house: it [is] unclean.

44. the priest is to come and examine it. If he finds that the infection has spread, this means that mildew is affecting the house: it is unclean.

45. And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city into an unclean place.

45. It must be pulled down and the stones, woodwork and all the plaster be taken to an unclean place outside the town.

46. Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.

46. Anyone who enters the house while it is closed will be unclean until evening.

47. And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.

47. Anyone who sleeps there must wash his clothing.

48. And if the priest shall come in, and look [upon it], and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

48. But if the priest finds, when he comes to examine the infection, that it has not spread in the house since it was plastered, he is to declare the house clean, for the infection is cured.

49. And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

49. As a sacrifice for the sin of the house, he is to take two birds, cedar wood, red cord and a sprig of hyssop.

50. And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:

50. He shall slaughter one of the birds in an earthenware pot over running water.

51. And 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:

51. Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the red cord and the live bird, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered and into the running water.

52. And 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:

52. He shall sprinkle the house seven times; and after having offered a sacrifice for the sin of the house with the blood of the bird, the running water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the red cord

53. But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.

53. he shall set the live bird free to fly out of the town into the open country. When the rite of atonement has been performed over the house in this way it will be clean.

54. This [is] the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,

54. Such is the law for all cases

55. And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,

55. of dreaded skin diseases, mildew of clothing and houses,

56. And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:

56. swellings, scabs and shiny spots. It defines the cases when things are unclean and when they are clean.

57. To teach when [it is] unclean, and when [it is] clean: this [is] the law of leprosy.

57. Such is the law on leprosy."