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1 The Lord gave Moses
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2 the following regulations about the ritual purification of those of you cured of a dreaded skin disease. On the day you are to be pronounced clean, you shall be brought to the priest,
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"This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,
3 and the priest shall take you outside the camp and examine you. If the disease is healed,
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and the priest shall go forth out of the camp. The priest shall examine him, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
4 the priest shall order that two ritually clean birds be brought, along with a piece of cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop.
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then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
5 Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water.
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The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
6 He shall take the other bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the red cord, and the hyssop, in the blood of the bird that was killed.
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As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
7 He shall sprinkle the blood seven times on the one of you who is to be purified from your skin disease, and then he shall pronounce you clean. He shall let the live bird fly away over the open fields.
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He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
8 You shall wash your clothes, shave off all your hair, and take a bath; you will then be ritually clean. You may enter the camp, but you must live outside your tent for seven days.
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"He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
9 On the seventh day you shall again shave your head, your beard, your eyebrows, and all the rest of the hair on your body; you shall wash your clothes and take a bath, and then you will be ritually clean.
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It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.
10 On the eighth day you shall bring two male lambs and one female lamb a year old that are without any defects, five pounds of flour mixed with olive oil, and half a pint of olive oil.
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"On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
11 The priest shall take you and these offerings to the entrance of the Tent of the Lord's presence.
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The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
12 Then the priest shall take one of the male lambs and together with the half pint of oil he shall offer it as a repayment offering. He shall present them as a special gift to the Lord for the priest.
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"The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
13 He shall kill the lamb in the holy place where the animals for the sin offerings and the burnt offerings are killed. He must do this because the repayment offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest and is very holy.
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He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.
14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the lamb and put it on the lobe of the right ear, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one of you to be declared ritually clean.
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The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
15 The priest shall take some of the olive oil and pour it in the palm of his own left hand,
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The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.
16 dip a finger of his right hand in it, and sprinkle some of it seven times there in the Lord's presence.
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The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.
17 He shall take some of the oil that is in the palm of his hand and some of the blood of the lamb and put them on the lobe of the right ear, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one of you to be declared ritually clean.
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The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
18 He shall put the rest of the oil that is in the palm of his hand on your head. In this way he shall perform the ritual of purification.
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The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.
19 Then the priest shall offer the sin offering and perform the ritual of purification. After that, he shall kill the animal for the burnt offering
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"The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
20 and offer it with the grain offering on the altar. In this way the priest shall perform the ritual of purification, and you will be ritually clean.
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and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
21 If you are poor and cannot afford any more, you shall bring for your purification only one male lamb as your repayment offering, a special gift to the Lord for the priest. You shall bring only two pounds of flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering and half a pint of olive oil.
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"If he is poor, and can't afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;
22 You shall also bring two doves or two pigeons, one for the sin offering and one for the burnt offering.
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and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
23 On the eighth day of your purification you shall bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tent.
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"On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before Yahweh.
24 The priest shall take the lamb and the olive oil and present them as a special gift to the Lord for the priest.
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The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
25 He shall kill the lamb and take some of the blood and put it on the lobe of your right ear, on the thumb of your right hand, and on the big toe of your right foot.
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He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand
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The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
27 and with a finger of his right hand sprinkle some of it seven times there in the Lord's presence.
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and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh.
28 He shall put some of the oil on the same places he put the blood: on the lobe of your right ear, on the thumb of your right hand, and on the big toe of your right foot.
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Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.
29 The rest of the oil that is in his palm he shall put on your head and in this way perform the ritual of purification.
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The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh.
30 Then he shall offer one of the doves or pigeons
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He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is able to afford,
31 as the sin offering and the other as the burnt offering with the grain offering. In this way the priest shall perform the ritual of purification.
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even such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh."
32 This is the law for those who have a dreaded skin disease but who cannot afford the normal offerings required for his purification.
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This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to afford the sacrifice for his cleansing.
33 The Lord gave Moses and Aaron
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Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
34 the following regulations about houses affected by spreading mildew. (These were to apply after the people of Israel entered the land of Canaan, which the Lord was going to give them as their possession.) If any of you find that the Lord has sent mildew on your house, then you must go and tell the priest about it.
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"When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,
36 The priest shall order everything to be moved out of the house before he goes to examine the mildew; otherwise everything in the house will be declared unclean. Then he shall go to the house
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The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
37 and examine the mildew. If there are greenish or reddish spots that appear to be eating into the wall,
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He shall examine the plague; and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;
38 he shall leave the house and lock it up for seven days.
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then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
39 On the seventh day he shall return and examine it again. If the mildew has spread,
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The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
40 he shall order that the stones on which the mildew is found be removed and thrown into some unclean place outside the city.
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then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:
41 After that he must have all the interior walls scraped and the plaster dumped in an unclean place outside the city.
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and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.
42 Then other stones are to be used to replace the stones that were removed, and new plaster will be used to cover the walls.
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They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
43 If the mildew breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and plastered,
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"If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
44 the priest shall go and look. If it has spread, the house is unclean.
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then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.
45 It must be torn down, and its stones, its wood, and all its plaster must be carried out of the city to an unclean place.
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He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Any who enter the house while it is locked up will be unclean until evening.
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"Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
47 Any who lie down or eat in the house must wash their clothes.
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He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 If, when the priest comes to look, the mildew has not reappeared after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house ritually clean, because the mildew has been completely removed.
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"If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and, behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
49 To purify the house, he shall take two birds, some cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop.
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To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
50 He shall kill one of the birds over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water.
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He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
51 Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the red cord, and the live bird and shall dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water. And he shall sprinkle the house seven times.
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He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52 In this way he shall purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red cord.
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He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;
53 Then he shall let the live bird fly away outside the city over the open fields. In this way he shall perform the ritual of purification for the house, and it will be ritually clean.
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but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean."
54 These are the laws about dreaded skin diseases;
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This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,
55 sores, boils, or inflammations; and about mildew in clothes or houses.
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and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
57 These laws determine when something is unclean and when it is clean.
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to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.
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