Levítico 14

¹ And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

² This shall be theOr, the ceremony which shall be used in his purgation.law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:

³ And the Priest shall go out of the campe, & the Priest shall consider him: and if the plague of leprosie be healed in the leper,

⁴ Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive [and]Of birds which were permitted to be eaten.clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

⁵ And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel overRunning water, or of the fountains.running water:

⁶ After, he shall take the liue sparowe with the cedar wood, and the skarlet lace, and the hyssope, and shall dip them and the liuing sparowe in the blood of the sparowe slaine, ouer the pure water,

⁷ And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shallSignifying that he that was made clean was set free, and restored to the company of others.let the living bird loose into the open field.

⁸ Then he that shall be clensed, shall wash his clothes, and shaue off all his heare, and wash himselfe in water, so he shalbe cleane: after that shall he come into the host, but shall tary without his tent seuen dayes.

⁹ So in the seuenth day hee shall shaue off all his heare, both his head, and his beard, and his eye browes: euen all his heare shall he shaue, and shall wash his clothes and shall wash his flesh in water: so he shalbe cleane.

¹⁰ And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs withoutWhich has no imperfection in any part.blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil,This quantity in Hebrew is called a Log, and holds six eggs in measure.and one log of oil.

¹¹ And the Priest that maketh him cleane shal bring the man which is to bee made cleane, and those things, before the Lord, at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

¹² Then the Priest shall take one lambe, and offer him for a trespasse offering, and the pint of oyle, and shake the to and fro before the Lord.

¹³ And hee shall kill the lambe in the place where the sinne offring and the burnt offring are slaine, euen in the holy place: for as the sinne offring is the Priests, so is the trespasse offring: for it is most holy.

¹⁴ So the Priest shal take of the blood of the trespasse offring, and put it vpon the lappe of the right eare of him that shalbe clensed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hand, and vpon the great toe of his right foote.

¹⁵ The Priest shall also take of ye pint of oyle, and powre it into the palme of his left hand,

¹⁶ And the Priest shal dip his right finger in the oyle that is in his left hand, & sprinkle of the oyle with his finger seuen times before the Lord.

¹⁷ And of the rest of the oyle that is in his hand, shal the Priest put vpon the lap of the right eare of him that is to bee clensed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hand, and vpon the great toe of his right foote, where the blood of the trespasse offring was put.

¹⁸ But the remnant of the oyle that is in the Priests hand, he shal powre vpon the head of him that is to be clensed: so the Priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord.

¹⁹ And the Priest shal offer the sinne offring and make an atonement for him that is to bee clensed of his vncleannesse: then after shall he kill the burnt offring.

²⁰ So the Priest shal offer ye burnt offring and the meat offring vpon ye altar and the Priest shall make an atonement for him: so he shalbe cleane.

²¹ And if he [be] poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb [for] a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and oneWhich is an Omer, (Exo_16:16).tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;

²² Also two turtle doues, or two yong pigeons, as he is able, whereof the one shalbe a sinne offering, and the other a burnt offring,

²³ And he shall bring them the eight day for his clensing vnto the Priest at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before ye Lord.

²⁴ And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shallOr, shall offer them as the offering that is shaken to and fro.wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD:

²⁵ And he shall kil the lambe of the trespasse offering, and the Priest shall take of the blood of the trespasse offring, and put it vpon the lap of his right eare that is to be clensed, & vpon ye thumbe of his right hande, and vpon the great toe of his right foote.

²⁶ Also the Priest shal powre of the oyle into the palme of his owne left hand.

²⁷ So ye Priest shal with his right finger sprinkle of the oyle that is in his left hand, seuen times before the Lord.

²⁸ Then the Priest shall put of the oyle that is in his hande, vpon the lap of the right eare of him that is to bee clensed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hande, and vpon the great toe of his right foote: vpon the place of the blood of the trespasse offring.

²⁹ But ye rest of the oyle that is in the Priests hand, he shall put vpon the head of him that is to be clensed, to make an atonement for him before the Lord.

³⁰ And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons,whether of them he can get.such as he can get;

³¹ Such, I say, as he is able, the one for a sinne offring, and the other for a burnt offring with the meate offring: so the Priest shall make an atonement for him that is to bee clensed before the Lord.

³² This [is] theThis order is appointed for the poor man.law [of him] in whom [is] the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get [that which pertaineth] to his cleansing.

³³ The Lord also spake vnto Moses and to Aaron, saying,

³⁴ When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and IThis declares that no plague nor punishment comes to man without God's providence and his sending.put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

³⁵ Then he that oweth the house, shall come and tell the Priest, saying, Me thinke there is like a plague of leprosie in the house.

³⁶ Then the Priest shall commande them to emptie the house before the Priest goe into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made vncleane, and then shall the Priest goe in to see the house,

³⁷ And hee shall marke the plague: and if the plague be in the walles of the house, & that there be deepe spots, greenish or reddish, which seeme to be lower then the wall,

³⁸ Then the Priest shall goe out of the house to the doore of the house, and shall cause to shut vp the house seuen dayes.

³⁹ So the Priest shall come againe ye seuenth day: and if he see that the plague bee increased in the walles of the house,

⁴⁰ Then the Priest shall commande them to take away the stones wherein the plague is, and they shall cast them into a foule place without the citie.

⁴¹ And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city intoWhere trash was cast, and other filth, that the people might not be infected by them.an unclean place:

⁴² And they shall take other stones, and put them in the places of those stones, and shall take other mortar, to plaister the house with.

⁴³ But if the plague come againe and breake out in the house, after that he hath taken away ye stones, and after that hee hath scraped and playstered the house,

⁴⁴ Then the Priest shall come and see: and if the plague growe in the house, it is a freating leprosie in the house: it is therefore vncleane.

⁴⁵ And he shallThat is, he shall command it to be pulled down, as in (Lev_14:40).break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city into an unclean place.

⁴⁶ Moreouer he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut vp, hee shall bee vncleane vntill the euen.

⁴⁷ Hee also that sleepeth in the house shall wash his clothes: he likewise that eateth in the house, shall wash his clothes.

⁴⁸ But if the Priest shall come and see, that the plague hath spread no further in the house, after the house be plaistered, the Priest shall pronounce that house cleane, for the plague is healed.

⁴⁹ And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, andIt seems that this was a lace or string to bind the hyssop to the wood, and so was made a sprinkle: the apostle to the Hebrews calls it scarlet wool, (Heb_9:19).scarlet, and hyssop:

⁵⁰ And hee shall kill one sparowe ouer pure water in an earthen vessell,

⁵¹ And shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssope, and the skarlet lace with the liue sparow, and dip them in the blood of the slayne sparow, and in the pure water, and sprinkle the house seuen times:

⁵² So shall hee clense the house with ye blood of the sparowe, & with the pure water, and with the liue sparowe, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssope, and with the skarlet lace.

⁵³ Afterwarde he shal let go the liue sparowe out of the towne into the broad fieldes: so shal he make atonement for the house, and it shal be cleane.

⁵⁴ This is the law for euery plague of leprosie and blacke spot,

⁵⁵ And of the leprosie of the garment, and of the house,

⁵⁶ And of the swelling, and of the skab, and of the white spot.

⁵⁷ This is the lawe of the leprosie to teache when a thing is vncleane, & when it is cleane.