Leviticus · 57 verses
Leviticus 14
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A house can be shut up, scraped, replastered, demolished, and finally purified with a bird, blood, water, cedar wood, hyssop, scarlet yarn, and a second bird released into the open fields.
The cleansing of a personvv. 1–32
The priest begins outside the camp, where the afflicted person is examined. If the skin disease has healed, two clean birds are brought: one is slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot, while the other, with cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, is dipped into the blood. The person is sprinkled seven times, the live bird is released, and the newly clean person washes, shaves, bathes, enters the camp, and waits outside the tent for seven days.
On the eighth day comes the splendidly exact business of the offerings. Blood goes on the right earlobe, right thumb, and right big toe; oil follows on those same three places, and the remainder is put on the head. The ordinary offering is three lambs, flour, and oil, but poverty has its own provision: one lamb, flour, oil, and whichever two turtledoves or young pigeons the person can afford. The chapter is careful about both the ritual and the purse.
The house that catches mildewvv. 33–57
The house receives nearly the same suspicious attention as the person. Its owner reports the mildew, the priest clears the house before entering, and green or red depressions beneath the wall's surface lead to a seven-day closure. If the mildew spreads, the stones are pulled out, the inside is scraped, and the debris is dumped outside the city. If it returns after replastering, the house is declared unclean and taken apart completely—stones, timbers, plaster, the lot.
But a house that has held its peace after replastering may be pronounced clean. Then the priest takes two birds and the familiar cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop; one bird is slaughtered over fresh water, and the house is sprinkled seven times with the blood-soaked bundle and the live bird. At the end, the live bird is released outside the city, and the house is clean. It is an unusually elaborate way to deal with a wall, though the wall has evidently made a serious impression.
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Lev 14:2“This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.
Lev 14:3The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed,
Lev 14:4the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
Lev 14:5Then the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.
Lev 14:6And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
Lev 14:7Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the skin disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and release the live bird into the open field.
Lev 14:8The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.
Lev 14:9On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.
Lev 14:10On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil.
Lev 14:11The priest who performs the cleansing shall present the one to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 14:12Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil; and he must wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
Lev 14:13Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
Lev 14:14The priest is to take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
Lev 14:15Then the priest shall take some of the log of olive oil, pour it into his left palm,
Lev 14:16dip his right forefinger into the oil in his left palm, and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.
Lev 14:17And the priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
Lev 14:18The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
Lev 14:19Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering
Lev 14:20and offer it on the altar, with the grain offering, to make atonement for him, and he will be clean.
Lev 14:21If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,
Lev 14:22and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
Lev 14:23On the eighth day he is to bring them for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD.
Lev 14:24The priest shall take the lamb for the guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
Lev 14:25And after he slaughters the lamb for the guilt offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
Lev 14:26Then the priest is to pour some of the oil into his left palm
Lev 14:27and sprinkle with his right forefinger some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the LORD.
Lev 14:28The priest shall also put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot—on the same places as the blood of the guilt offering.
Lev 14:29The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
Lev 14:30Then he must sacrifice the turtledoves or young pigeons, whichever he can afford,
Lev 14:31one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.
Lev 14:32This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”
Lev 14:34“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land,
Lev 14:35the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘Something like mildew has appeared in my house.’
Lev 14:36The priest must order that the house be cleared before he enters it to examine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will become unclean. After this, the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
Lev 14:37He is to examine the house, and if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,
Lev 14:38the priest shall go outside the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.
Lev 14:39On the seventh day the priest is to return and inspect the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls,
Lev 14:40he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
Lev 14:41And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.
Lev 14:42So different stones must be obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional mortar to replaster the house.
Lev 14:43If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house has been scraped and replastered,
Lev 14:44the priest must come and inspect it. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.
Lev 14:45It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.
Lev 14:46Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
Lev 14:47And anyone who sleeps in the house or eats in it must wash his clothes.
Lev 14:48If, however, the priest comes and inspects it, and the mildew has not spread after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the mildew is gone.
Lev 14:49He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house;
Lev 14:50and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.
Lev 14:51Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
Lev 14:52And he shall cleanse the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.
Lev 14:53Finally, he is to release the live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
Lev 14:54This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,
Lev 14:55for mildew in clothing or in a house,
Lev 14:56and for a swelling, rash, or spot,
Lev 14:57to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”
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- 2Luke 17:14When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.
- 14Exodus 29:20Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Splatter the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.
- 57Leviticus 10:10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
- 2Luke 5:12–14While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell facedown and begged Him, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
- 3Leviticus 13:46As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
- 4Numbers 19:6The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
- 8Leviticus 11:25and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.
- 12Exodus 29:24Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.
- 14Leviticus 8:23–24Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- 18Leviticus 4:26He must burn all its fat on the altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.
- 21Leviticus 5:7If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.
- 35Psalms 91:10no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.
- 56Leviticus 13:2“When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that may be an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.
- 2Mark 1:40–44Then a leper came to Jesus, begging on his knees: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”
- 4Leviticus 14:6And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
- 4Hebrews 9:19For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,
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