Leviticus 14; Leviticus 15

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Leviticus 14

1 The LORD spoke to Moses,
2 "These are the instructions for making a person clean after a skin disease. He must be taken to the priest.
3 The priest will go outside the camp and examine him. If the person is healed,
4 the priest will order someone to get two living, clean birds, some cedar wood, red yarn, and a hyssop sprig to use for the cleansing.
5 Then the priest will order someone to kill one bird over a clay bowl containing fresh water.
6 The priest will take the living bird, the cedar wood, the red yarn, and the hyssop sprig and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.
7 He will sprinkle the blood seven times on the one to be cleansed and will declare that person clean. Then he will let the living bird fly away into the open country.
8 "The one to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and wash. Then he will be clean. After that he may go into the camp. However, for seven days he will live outside his tent.
9 On the seventh day he must shave off all the hair on his head, his beard, and his eyebrows, and he must wash his clothes and body. Then he will be clean.
10 "On the eighth day he must take two male lambs that have no defects and a one-year-old female lamb that has no defects. He must also take eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering along with a quart of olive oil.
11 The priest who will declare him clean must bring the person and his offerings into the LORD's presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
12 The priest will take one of the male lambs and the quart of olive oil and present them to the LORD as a guilt offering.
13 He will slaughter the lamb in the holy place where he slaughters the offering for sin and the burnt offering. He will do this because the guilt offering, like the offering for sin, belongs to the priest. It is very holy.
14 Then the priest will take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed.
15 The priest will also take some of the olive oil and pour it into his own left hand.
16 He will dip his right finger in the oil in his left hand, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times in the LORD's presence.
17 The priest will put some of the oil that is still in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering.
18 The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed. So he will make peace with the LORD for that person in the LORD's presence.
19 The priest will also sacrifice the offering for sin to make peace with the LORD for the one who is being cleansed from his impurity. After that, he will slaughter the burnt offering.
20 The priest will sacrifice the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest will make peace with the LORD for that person, and the person who had the skin disease will be clean.
21 "But if the one to be cleansed is poor and cannot afford that much, he must take one male lamb, present it to make peace with the LORD for himself, and use it for his guilt offering. He will take only eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, a quart of olive oil,
22 and two mourning doves or two pigeons (whatever he can afford). The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering.
23 On the eighth day he will take them to the priest for his cleansing at the entrance to the tent of meeting in the LORD's presence.
24 The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the quart of olive oil and present them to the LORD.
25 He will slaughter the lamb as a guilt offering. Then the priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed.
26 The priest will pour some of the olive oil into his own left hand.
27 With his right finger he will sprinkle some of the oil seven times in the LORD's presence.
28 The priest will put some of the oil that is in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering.
29 In the LORD's presence, the priest will pour the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed in order to make a payment for him.
30 Then the one to be cleansed must take one of the mourning doves or pigeons (whichever he can afford),
31 and sacrifice it as an offering for sin. He will take the other and sacrifice it as a burnt offering together with the grain offering. So in the LORD's presence the priest will make peace with the LORD for the one who is being cleansed.
32 These are the instructions for one who has an infectious skin disease but cannot afford what is needed for his cleansing."
33 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,
34 "When you come to Canaan that I am going to give to you, mildew may appear in a house.
35 The owner of that house must come and tell the priest that there is something that looks like mildew in his house.
36 "Before the priest examines the house, he will order everything taken out of it so that nothing in the house will become unclean. Then the priest will go inside to examine the house.
37 He will examine the mildew area on the walls. If it is green and red in sunken areas that are deeper than the rest of the wall,
38 the priest will go out to the door of the house and close up the house for seven days.
39 On the seventh day the priest will go back and examine it again. If the mildew in the walls of the house has spread,
40 the priest must order the stones that have the mildew to be torn out and thrown outside the city in an unclean place.
41 He must have the entire inside of the house scraped. The plaster dust scraped off the walls must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.
42 The stones must be replaced, and the house must be plastered again.
43 If the mildew develops again in the house after all this,
44 the priest will examine it one more time. If it is a spreading type of mildew, the house is unclean.
45 The house--stones, wood, and all the plaster--must be torn down and taken to an unclean place outside the city.
46 Whoever goes into the house any time it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
47 Whoever sleeps or eats in the house must wash his clothes.
48 But if the priest comes and makes an examination and the mildew has not spread in the house after it is plastered again, the priest must declare the house clean. The mildew is gone.
49 "The priest must take two birds, cedar wood, red yarn, and a hyssop sprig and use them to make the house clean.
50 He must kill the one bird over a clay bowl containing fresh water.
51 He must take the cedar wood, the hyssop sprig, the red yarn, and the living bird and dip them in the fresh water containing the blood of the bird that was killed. He must sprinkle the house seven times.
52 So he must use the bird's blood, the fresh water, the living bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red yarn to make the house clean.
53 Then he will let the living bird fly from the city into the open country. He will make peace with the LORD for the house, and it will be clean.
54 "These are the instructions for any kind of mildew or fungus
55 that infects clothing or houses
56 and for skin diseases where there is a sore, a rash, or an irritated area.
57 These instructions for skin diseases and mildew help you distinguish between what is clean and what is unclean."
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Leviticus 15

1 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,
2 "Tell the Israelites: If a man has a discharge from his penis, his discharge is unclean.
3 He is unclean because of the discharge from his penis. Whether it is chronic or not makes no difference; he is still unclean.
4 "The man who has a discharge makes everything he lies on or sits on unclean.
5 Those who touch his bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.
6 Those who sit on anything he sat on must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.
7 Those who touch a man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.
8 If a man who has a discharge spits on anyone who is clean, the person he spits on must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening.
9 When a man who has a discharge sits on a saddle, it becomes unclean.
10 Those who carry such things must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.
11 If a man who has a discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands, the person he touched must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening.
12 When a man who has a discharge touches pottery, it must be broken, and any wooden bucket he touches must be rinsed.
13 "When a man's discharge stops, he must wait seven days to be cleansed. He must wash his clothes and his body in fresh water. Then he will be clean.
14 On the eighth day he must take two mourning doves or two pigeons and come into the LORD's presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting. He will give these birds to the priest.
15 The priest will sacrifice one as an offering for sin and the other as a burnt offering. So in the LORD's presence, the priest will make peace with the LORD for the man who had a discharge.
16 "If a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body. He will be unclean until evening.
17 Any clothes or any leather with semen on it must be washed. It will be unclean until evening.
18 "When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and has an emission of semen, they must wash themselves. They will be unclean until evening.
19 "When a woman has her monthly period, she will be unclean for seven days. Those who touch her will be unclean until evening.
20 Everything she lies on or sits on during her period will be unclean.
21 Those who touch her bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.
22 Those who touch anything she sits on must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.
23 If her blood touches anything on the bed or anything she sits on, it will be unclean until evening.
24 If a man has sexual intercourse with her while she has her period, he will be unclean for seven days. Any bed he lies on will become unclean.
25 "If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days other than her monthly period, she is unclean. If her period lasts longer than usual, she will be unclean as long as she has a discharge. It is like her period.
26 As long as she has a discharge, any bed she lies on or anything she sits on is unclean. It is like her period.
27 Those who touch these things are unclean and must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.
28 "When her discharge stops, she must wait seven days. After that, she will be clean.
29 On the eighth day she must take two mourning doves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
30 The priest will offer one as an offering for sin and the other as a burnt offering. So in the LORD's presence the priest will make peace with the LORD for the woman who had an unclean discharge.
31 "You must separate the Israelites from anything that keeps them from being presentable to me. Otherwise, they will die because they make my tent, which is among them, unclean.
32 "These are the instructions for any man who has a discharge or an emission of semen that makes him unclean,
33 for any woman who has her period, for any man or woman who has a discharge, or for any man who has sexual intercourse with a woman when she is unclean."
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