Leviticus 14

¹And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

²This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed.

³He shall be brought to the Priest: who going out of the camp, when he shall find that the leprosy is cleansed,

⁴he shall command him that is purified, that he offer for himself two live sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar-wood, and scarlet & hyssop,

⁵and he shall command that one of the sparrows be immolated in an earthen vessel over living water:

⁶but the other being alive, with the cedar-wood, and scarlet and the hyssop, he shall dip in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated,

⁷wherewith he shall sprinkle him, that is to be cleansed, seven times, that he may be rightly purged: and he shall let go the live sparrow, that it fly into the field.

⁸And when the man hath washed his cloths, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: & being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so for all that, that he tarry without his own tent seven days,

⁹& the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, & his beard & eye-brows, and the hair of his whole body. And having washed again his cloths, and his body,

¹⁰the eighth day he shall take two lambs without spot, and an ewe of a year old without spot, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.

¹¹And when the Priest that purifieth the man, hath set him and all these things before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of testimony,

¹²he shall take a lamb, and offer it for offence, & the sextary of oil, and having offered all before the Lord,

¹³he shall immolate the lamb, where the host for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in a holy place. For as for sin, so also the host for offence pertaineth to the Priest: it is Holy of holies.

¹⁴And the Priest taking of the blood of the host, that was immolated for offence, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumbs of his right hand and foot:

¹⁵and of the sextary of oil he shall pour into his own left hand,

¹⁶and shall dip his right finger in it and shall sprinkle before the Lord seven times.

¹⁷and the residue of oil in his left hand, he shall pour upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumbs of his right hand and foot, and upon the blood that was shed for offence,

¹⁸and upon his head.

¹⁹And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and shall make the sacrifice for sin, then shall he immolate the holocaust,

²⁰and put it on the altar with the libaments thereof, and the man shall orderly be cleansed.

²¹But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things aforesaid, for offence he shall take a lamb for an oblation, that the Priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and of oil a sextary,

²²and two turtles or two young pigeons, of the which let one be for sin, & the other for an holocaust:

²³& he shall offer them the eighth day of his purification to the Priest, at the door of the tabernacle of testimony before the Lord:

²⁴who receiving the lamb for offence, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together:

²⁵and the lamb being immolated, of the blood thereof he shall put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumbs of his right hand and foot:

²⁶but part of the oil he shall pour into his own left hand,

²⁷wherein dipping the finger of his right hand, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord:

²⁸and he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and the thumbs of his right hand & foot, in the place of the blood that was shed for offence:

²⁹& the other part of the oil, that is in his left hand, he shall pour upon the head of the purified person, that he may propitiate the Lord for him,

³⁰& a turtle, or young pigeon he shall offer,

³¹one for offence, & the other for an holocaust, with their libaments.

³²This is the sacrifice of a leper, that is not able to have all things for the cleansing of himself.

³³And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron, saying:

³⁴When you shall be entered into the Land of Chanaan, which I will give you in possession, if there be the plague of leprosy in a house,

³⁵he whose house it is, shall go and tell the Priest, saying: It seemeth to me, that there is as it were the plague of leprosy in my house,

³⁶But he shall command that they carry forth all things out of the house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy, lest all things become unclean that are in the house. And afterward he shall go in to consider the leprosy of the house:

³⁷& if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints, disfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all the rest,

³⁸he shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it seven days.

³⁹And returning the seventh day, he shall consider it. If he find that the leprosy is grown,

⁴⁰he shall command the stones wherein the leprosy is to be plucked out, and to be thrown without the city into an unclean place:

⁴¹and the house it-self to be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scraping to be dispersed without the city into an unclean place,

⁴²and other stones to be laid in their places, that were taken away, and the house to be plastered with other mortar.

⁴³But if after the stones be plucked out, and the dust scraped off, & it be plastered with other earth,

⁴⁴the Priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house unclean:

⁴⁵the which forthwith they shall destroy, and the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust they shall cast without the town into an unclean place.

⁴⁶He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until even:

⁴⁷and he that sleepeth in it, & eateth any thing, shall wash his cloths.

⁴⁸But if the Priest going in perceive that the leprosy is not grown farther in the house, after it was plastered again, he shall purify it being made whole again:

⁴⁹and for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

⁵⁰and when one sparrow is immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters,

⁵¹he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the live sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated, and in the living water, and he shall sprinkle the house seven times,

⁵²and shall purify it as well with the blood of the sparrow as with the living water and with the live sparrow, and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the scarlet.

⁵³And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house, & it shall be rightly cleansed.

⁵⁴This is the law of all leprosy and percussion,

⁵⁵of the leprosy of garments and houses,

⁵⁶of a scar and of blisters breaking forth, of a shining spot, and when the colours are changed into diverse kinds,

⁵⁷that it may be known at what time any thing is clean or unclean.