Lévitique 14:1-7

1 L'Éternel parla à Moïse, en disant:

2 Voici la loi touchant le lépreux, pour le jour de sa purification: on l'amènera au sacrificateur;

3 Le sacrificateur sortira du camp et l'examinera. Si la plaie de la lèpre du lépreux est guérie,

4 Le sacrificateur ordonnera de prendre pour celui qui doit être purifié, deux oiseaux vivants et purs, du bois de cèdre, du cramoisi et de l'hysope.

5 Et le sacrificateur commandera qu'on égorge l'un des oiseaux sur un vase de terre, sur de l'eau vive.

6 Quant à l'oiseau vivant, il le prendra, avec le bois de cèdre, le cramoisi et l'hysope, et il les trempera, avec l'oiseau vivant, dans le sang de l'oiseau égorgé sur l'eau vive;

7 Il en fera aspersion sept fois sur celui qui se purifie de la lèpre, il le déclarera pur, et il lâchera dans les champs l'oiseau vivant.

Lévitique 14:1-7 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.