Leviticus

The LORD said to Moses,

"These are the regulations for any ceremonially unclean person at the time of their cleansing, when they are brought to the priest:

The priest is to go outside the camp and examine them. If they have been healed of their defiling skin disease,

the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the person to be cleansed.

Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.

He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.

Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the defiling disease and then pronounce them clean. After that, he is to release the live bird in the open fields.

"The person to be cleansed must wash their clothes, shave off all their hair and bathe with water; then they will be ceremonially clean. After this they may come into the camp, but they must stay outside their tent for seven days.

On the seventh day they must shave off all their hair; they must shave their head, their beard, their eyebrows and the rest of their hair. They must wash their clothes and bathe themselves with water, and they will be clean.

"On the eighth day they must bring two male lambs and one ewe lamb a year old, each without defect, along with three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil.

The priest who pronounces them clean shall present both the person to be cleansed and their offerings before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil; he shall wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.

He is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

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, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot.

The priest shall then take some of the log of oil, pour it into the palm of his own left hand,

dip his right finger into the oil in his left hand, and with his finger sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD.

The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.

The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed and make atonement for them before the LORD.

Then the priest shall sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from their uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering

and offer it on the altar, together with the grain offering, and make atonement for them, and they will be clean.

"If, however, they are poor and cannot afford these, they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of oil,

and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as they can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

On the eighth day they must bring them to the priest for their cleansing at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

The priest is to take the lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil and wave them before the LORD.

He shall slaughter the lamb and put some of its blood on the lobe of the right ear, the right thumb, and the right big toe of the one being cleansed.

The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,

and with his right finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the LORD.

The priest is to put some of the oil on the ear lobe, the thumb, and the big toe, exactly where the blood of the guilt offering was placed.

The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one being cleansed to make atonement for them.

Then he shall sacrifice the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever the person could afford,

one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for them.

These are the regulations for anyone with a defiling skin disease who cannot afford the regular offerings for their cleansing.

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mould in a house in that land,

the owner must tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like a defiling mould in my house.’

The priest must order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mould, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and examine the house.

He is to examine the mould on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,

the priest shall go out of the doorway and close up the house for seven days.

On the seventh day the priest shall return to examine the house. If the mould has spread on the walls,

he shall order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town.

He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the material that is scraped off thrown into an unclean place outside the town.

Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house.

If the mould reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered,

the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mould has spread in the house, it is a destructive mould; the house is unclean.

It must be torn down, its stones, timbers and all the plaster, and taken to an unclean place outside the town.

Anyone who goes into the house while it is closed up will be unclean till evening.

Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash their clothes.

But if the priest comes to examine it and the mould has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the mould has gone.

To purify the house he is to take two birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop.

He shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.

Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

He shall purify the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.

Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

These are the regulations for any defiling skin disease,

for mould in a fabric or in a house,

and for a swelling, a rash or a bright spot,

In this way you can determine when something is unclean and when it is clean. These are the regulations for skin diseases and mould.