Levítico 14:48-57

48 Mas si entrare el sacerdote y mirare, y viere que la plaga no se ha extendido en la casa después que fue encostrada, el sacerdote dará la casa por limpia, porque la plaga ha sanado.

49 Entonces tomará para purificar la casa dos avecillas, y palo de cedro, y grana, e hisopo;

50 y degollará una avecilla en un vaso de barro sobre aguas vivas;

51 y tomará el palo de cedro, y el hisopo, y la grana, y la avecilla viva, y lo mojará todo en la sangre de la avecilla muerta y en las aguas vivas, y rociará la casa siete veces.

52 Y purificará la casa con la sangre de la avecilla, y con las aguas vivas, y con la avecilla viva, y el palo de cedro, y el hisopo, y la grana.

53 Luego soltará la avecilla viva fuera de la ciudad sobre la faz del campo; y así reconciliará la casa, y será limpia.

54 Esta es la ley acerca de toda plaga de lepra, y de tiña;

55 y de la lepra del vestido, y de la casa;

56 y acerca de la hinchazón, y de la postilla, y de la mancha blanca;

57 para enseñar cuándo es inmundo, y cuándo es limpio. Esta es la ley de la lepra.

Levítico 14:48-57 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 14

This chapter treats of the purification of lepers, and the rules to be observed therein; and first what the priest was to do for his cleansing when brought to him, by making use of two birds, with cedar wood, scarlet and hyssop, as directed, Le 14:1-7; what he was to do for himself, shaving off all his hair, and washing his flesh and clothes in water, Le 14:8,9; the offerings to be offered up for him, two he lambs and one ewe lamb, and a meat offering, with a particular account of the use of the blood of the trespass offering, and of oil put upon the tip of his right ear, the thumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot, Le 14:10-20; but if poor, only one lamb was required, a meat offering of one tenth deal, and two turtle doves or two young pigeons, and blood and oil used as before, Le 14:21-32; next follow an account of leprosy in an house, and the signs of it, and the rules to judge of it, Le 14:33-48; and the manner of cleansing from it, Le 14:49-53; and the chapter is closed with a recapitulation of the several laws concerning the various sorts of leprosy in this and the preceding chapter, Le 14:54-57.