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Law of Cleansing a Leper |
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| Leviticus 14:1 |
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
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| Leviticus 14:2 |
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"This shall be the law of the leper in the
day of his cleansing. Now he shall be brought to the priest, |
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| Leviticus 14:3 |
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and the priest shall go out to the outside of
the camp. Thus the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been
healed in the leper, |
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| Leviticus 14:4 |
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then the priest shall give orders to take two
live clean birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop for the one who
is to be cleansed. |
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| Leviticus 14:5 |
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The priest shall also give orders to slay the
one bird in an earthenware vessel over running water. |
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| Leviticus 14:6 |
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As for the live bird, he shall take it together
with the cedar wood and the scarlet string and the hyssop, and shall dip them
and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slain over the running water. |
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| Leviticus 14:7 |
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He 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. |
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| Leviticus 14:8 |
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The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes
and shave off all his hair and bathe in water and be clean. Now afterward, he
may enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent for seven days. |
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| Leviticus 14:9 |
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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 body in water
and be clean. |
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| Leviticus 14:10 |
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"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 ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of
oil; |
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| Leviticus 14:11 |
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and the priest who pronounces him clean shall
present the man to be cleansed and the aforesaid before the LORD at the doorway
of the tent of meeting. |
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| Leviticus 14:12 |
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Then the priest shall take the one male lamb
and bring it for a guilt offering, with the log of oil, and present them as a
wave offering before the LORD. |
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| Leviticus 14:13 |
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Next he shall slaughter the male lamb in the
place where they slaughter the sin offering and the burnt offering, at the place
of the sanctuary-for the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the
priest; it is most holy. |
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| Leviticus 14:14 |
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The priest shall then take some of the blood
of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear
of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe
of his right foot. |
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| Leviticus 14:15 |
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The priest shall also take some of the log
of oil, and pour it into his left palm; |
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| Leviticus 14:16 |
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the priest shall then dip his right-hand finger
into the oil that is in his left palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of the
oil seven times before the LORD. |
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| Leviticus 14:17 |
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Of the remaining oil which is in his palm,
the priest shall put some on the right ear lobe of the one to be cleansed, and
on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood
of the guilt offering; |
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| Leviticus 14:18 |
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while the rest of the oil that is in the priest's
palm, he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed. So the priest shall
make atonement on his behalf before the LORD. |
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| Leviticus 14:19 |
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The priest shall next offer the sin offering
and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterward,
he shall slaughter the burnt offering. |
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| Leviticus 14:20 |
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The priest shall offer up the burnt offering
and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for
him, and he will be clean. |
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| Leviticus 14:21 |
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"But if he is poor and his means are insufficient,
then he is to take one male lamb for a guilt offering as a wave offering to make
atonement for him, and one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for
a grain offering, and a log of oil, |
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| Leviticus 14:22 |
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and two turtledoves or two young pigeons which
are within his means, the one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. |
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| Leviticus 14:23 |
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Then the eighth day he shall bring them for
his cleansing to the priest, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, before the
LORD. |
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| Leviticus 14:24 |
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The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt
offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall offer them for a wave offering
before the LORD. |
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| Leviticus 14:25 |
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Next he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt
offering; and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and
put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed and on the thumb
of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. |
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| Leviticus 14:26 |
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The priest shall also pour some of the oil into
his left palm; |
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| Leviticus 14:27 |
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and with his right-hand finger the priest shall
sprinkle some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before the LORD. |
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| Leviticus 14:28 |
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The priest shall then put some of the oil that
is in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on
the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place
of the blood of the guilt offering. |
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| Leviticus 14:29 |
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Moreover, the rest of the oil that is in the
priest's palm he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement
on his behalf before the LORD. |
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| Leviticus 14:30 |
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He shall then offer one of the turtledoves or
young pigeons, which are within his means. |
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| Leviticus 14:31 |
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He shall offer what he can afford, the one for
a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, together with the grain offering.
So the priest shall make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the one to be
cleansed. |
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| Leviticus 14:32 |
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This is the law for him in whom there is an
infection of leprosy, whose means are limited for his cleansing." |
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Cleansing a Leprous House |
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| Leviticus 14:33 |
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The LORD further spoke to Moses and to Aaron,
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| Leviticus 14:34 |
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"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I
give you for a possession, and I put a mark of leprosy on a house in the land
of your possession, |
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| Leviticus 14:35 |
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then the one who owns the house shall come
and tell the priest, saying, ' Something like a mark of leprosy has become visible
to me in the house.' |
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| Leviticus 14:36 |
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The priest shall then command that they empty
the house before the priest goes in to look at the mark, so that everything in
the house need not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look
at the house. |
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| Leviticus 14:37 |
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So he shall look at the mark, and if the mark
on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper
than the surface, |
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| Leviticus 14:38 |
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then the priest shall come out of the house,
to the doorway, and quarantine the house for seven days. |
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| Leviticus 14:39 |
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The priest shall return on the seventh day and
make an inspection. If the mark has indeed spread in the walls of the house, |
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| Leviticus 14:40 |
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then the priest shall order them to tear out
the stones with the mark in them and throw them away at an unclean place outside
the city. |
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| Leviticus 14:41 |
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He shall have the house scraped all around inside,
and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside
the city. |
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| Leviticus 14:42 |
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Then they shall take other stones and replace
those stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house. |
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| Leviticus 14:43 |
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"If, however, the mark breaks out again in the
house after he has torn out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has
been replastered, |
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| Leviticus 14:44 |
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then the priest shall come in and make an inspection.
If he sees that the mark has indeed spread in the house, it is a malignant mark
in the house; it is unclean. |
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| Leviticus 14:45 |
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He shall therefore tear down the house, its
stones, and its timbers, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them
outside the city to an unclean place. |
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| Leviticus 14:46 |
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Moreover, whoever goes into the house during
the time that he has quarantined it, becomes unclean until evening. |
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| Leviticus 14:47 |
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Likewise, whoever lies down in the house shall
wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes. |
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| Leviticus 14:48 |
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"If, on the other hand, the priest comes in
and makes an inspection and the mark has not indeed spread in the house after
the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean
because the mark has not reappeared. |
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| Leviticus 14:49 |
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To cleanse the house then, he shall take two
birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop, |
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| Leviticus 14:50 |
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and he shall slaughter the one bird in an earthenware
vessel over running water. |
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| Leviticus 14:51 |
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Then he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop
and the scarlet string, with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain
bird as well as in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. |
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| Leviticus 14:52 |
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He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood
of the bird and with the running water, along with the live bird and with the
cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet string. |
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| Leviticus 14:53 |
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However, he shall let the live bird go free
outside the city into the open field. So he shall make atonement for the house,
and it will be clean." |
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| Leviticus 14:54 |
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This is the law for any mark of leprosy--even
for a scale, |
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| Leviticus 14:55 |
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and for the leprous garment or house, |
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| Leviticus 14:56 |
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and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for
a bright spot-- |
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| Leviticus 14:57 |
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to teach when they are unclean and when they
are clean. This is the law of leprosy. |
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