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Leviticus 14

New International Reader’s Version



1 The LORD spoke to Moses. He told him to say to the people, 2 ‘Here are the rules for making anyone “clean” who has had a skin disease. They apply when the person is brought to the priest. 3 The priest must go outside the camp. He must look the person over carefully. Suppose they have been healed of their skin disease. 4 Then the priest will order someone to bring him two live “clean” birds. He will also order someone to bring him some cedar wood, bright red yarn and branches of a hyssop plant. All these things will be used to make the person “clean”. 5 The priest will order someone to kill one of the birds. It must be killed over fresh water in a clay pot. 6 Then the priest must take the live bird. He must dip it into the blood of the bird killed over the fresh water. He must dip it into the blood together with the cedar wood, the bright red yarn and the hyssop plant. 7 The priest will sprinkle the blood on the person who had the skin disease. That will make them “clean”. The priest must sprinkle them seven times. Then the priest must announce that they are “clean”. After that, the priest must let the live bird go free in the open fields. 8 ‘The person must also wash their clothes to be made “clean”. They must shave off all their hair. They must take a bath. Then they will be “clean”. After that, they may come into the camp. But they must stay outside their tent for seven days. 9 On the seventh day they must shave off all their hair. They must shave their head. They must shave off their beard. They must also shave off their eyebrows and the rest of their hair. They must wash their clothes. They must take a bath. Then they will be “clean”. 10 ‘On the eighth day they must bring two male lambs and one female lamb as an offering. The female must be a year old. The lambs must not have any flaws. They must also bring 4.5 kilograms of the finest flour as a grain offering. They must mix it with olive oil. They must also bring a third of a litre of oil. 11 The priest who announces that the person is “clean” must bring them and their offerings to me. He must do it at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 12 ‘Then the priest must take one of the male lambs. He must offer it as a guilt offering. He must offer it along with a third of a litre of oil. He must lift all of it up and wave it in front of me as a wave offering. 13 He must kill the lamb in the holy area where sin offerings and burnt offerings are killed. The guilt offering belongs to the priest, just as the sin offering does. The guilt offering is very holy. 14 The priest must take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the person’s right earlobe. He must put some on the thumb of their right hand. He must also put some on the big toe of their right foot. 15 Then the priest must take some of the oil and pour it into his own left hand. 16 He must dip his right forefinger into the oil in his hand. He must use his finger to sprinkle some of the oil in front of me seven times. 17 The priest must put some of the oil in his hand on the same places he put the blood of the guilt offering. He must put some on the person’s right earlobe. He must put some on the thumb of their right hand. He must put some on the big toe of their right foot. 18 He must put on their head the rest of the oil in his hand. It will pay for the person’s sin in my sight. 19 ‘Then the priest must sacrifice the sin offering. It will pay for the person’s sin. They will be made “clean” after being “unclean”. After that, the priest will kill the burnt offering. 20 He will offer it on the altar. He will offer it together with the grain offering. It will pay for the person’s sin. Then they will be “clean”. 21 ‘But suppose they are poor. Suppose they can’t afford all these offerings. Then they must bring one male lamb as a guilt offering. It must be lifted up and waved in front of me to pay for their sin. They must also bring 1.5 kilograms of the finest flour along with the lamb. They must mix the flour with olive oil. It is a grain offering. They must offer it along with a third of a litre of oil. 22 They must also bring two doves or two young pigeons that they can afford. One is for a sin offering. The other is for a burnt offering. 23 ‘On the eighth day they must bring them to the priest so they can be made “clean”. They must bring them to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They must do it in my sight. 24 The priest must take the lamb for the guilt offering. He must take it together with the a third of a litre of oil. He must lift all of it up and wave it in front of me as a wave offering. 25 He must kill the lamb for the guilt offering. He must take some of its blood and put it on the person’s right earlobe. He must put some on the thumb of their right hand. He must also put some on the big toe of their right foot. 26 The priest must pour some of the oil into his own left hand. 27 He must dip his right forefinger into the oil in his hand. He must use his finger to sprinkle some of it seven times in front of me. 28 Here is what he must do with some of the oil in his hand. He must put it on the same places where he put the blood of the guilt offering. He must put some on the person’s right earlobe. He must put some on the thumb of their right hand. He must also put some on the big toe of their right foot. 29 He must put on their head the rest of the oil in his hand. It will pay for the person’s sin in my sight. 30 The priest will sacrifice the doves or the young pigeons that the person can afford. 31 One is for a sin offering. The other is for a burnt offering. The priest must offer them together with the grain offering. In that way he will pay for the person’s sin in my sight. He will do it to make them “clean”. ’ 32 These are the rules for anyone who has a skin disease. They are for people who can’t afford the regular offerings that are required to make them ‘clean’. 



33 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron. He told them to say to the people, 34 ‘You will enter the land of Canaan. I am giving it to you as your own. When you enter it, suppose I put mould in one of your houses. And suppose the mould spreads. 35 Then the owner of that house must go and speak to the priest. He must say, “I’ve seen something that looks like mould in my house.” 36 The priest must order everything to be taken out of the house. It must be done before he goes in to look carefully at the mould. If it is not done, the priest must announce that everything in the house is “unclean”. After the house is empty the priest must go in and check it. 37 He must look carefully at the mould on the walls. Suppose it looks as if it has green or red dents in it. And suppose the dents look as if they are behind the surface of the wall. 38 Then the priest must go out the door. He must close the house up for seven days. 39 On the seventh day the priest will return to check the house. Suppose the mould on the walls has spread. 40 Then he must order someone to tear out the stones that have mould on them. He must let them be thrown into an “unclean” place outside the town. 41 He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped. Everything scraped off must be dumped into an “unclean” place outside the town. 42 Then other stones must be put in the place of the stones that had mould on them. The inside walls of the house must be coated with new clay. 43 ‘Suppose the stones have been torn out. The house has been scraped. And the walls have been coated with new clay. But the mould appears again. 44 Then the priest must go and look things over carefully. Suppose the mould has spread in the house. Then it is the kind of mould that destroys things. The house is not “clean”. 45 It must be torn down. The stones, the wood and all the clay coating must be torn out. All of it must be taken out of the town to an “unclean” place. 46 ‘Suppose someone goes into the house while it is closed up. Then they will be “unclean” until evening. 47 If they sleep or eat in the house, they must wash their clothes. 48 ‘But suppose the priest comes to look things over carefully. And suppose the mould has not spread after the walls had been coated with new clay. Then he will announce that the house is “clean”. The mould is gone. 49 To make the house pure, the priest must get two birds. He must also get some cedar wood, bright red yarn and branches of a hyssop plant. 50 He must kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot. 51 Then he must take the cedar wood, the hyssop plant, the bright red yarn and the live bird. He must dip all of them into the blood of the dead bird. He must also dip them into the fresh water. He must sprinkle the house seven times. 52 The priest will use the blood and the water to make the house pure. He will use the live bird to make it pure. He will also use the cedar wood, the hyssop plant and the bright red yarn to make it pure. 53 Then he must let the live bird go free in the open fields outside the town. In that way he will make the house pure. It will be “clean”. ’ 54 These are the rules for skin diseases. They apply to sores. 55 They apply to mould in clothes or in houses. 56 They also apply to swellings, rashes or shiny red spots on the skin. 57 Use these rules to decide whether something is ‘clean’ or not. These are the rules for skin diseases and for mould. 

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Leviticus 14

English Standard Version



1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest, (Mt 8:2; Mt 8:4; Mr 1:40; Mr 1:44; Lu 5:12; Lu 5:14; Lu 17:14) 3 and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person, (2Ki 7:10; Lu 17:12) 4 the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live[1] clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop. (Ex 12:22; Nu 19:6; Heb 9:19) 5 And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh[2] water. 6 He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. 7 And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field. (Le 14:53; Le 16:22; Le 17:5; 2Ki 5:10; 2Ki 5:14; Heb 9:13) 8 And 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. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days. (Le 11:25; Le 14:47; Nu 12:15) 9 And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean. (Le 14:8; Nu 31:19) 10 “And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah[3] of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log[4] of oil. (Nu 15:4; Mt 8:4; Mr 1:44; Lu 5:14) 11 And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 12 And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. (Ex 29:24; Le 5:18; Le 6:6) 13 And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy. (Le 1:5; Le 1:11; Le 2:3; Le 4:4; Le 4:24; Le 7:6; Le 7:7) 14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe 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. (Ex 29:20; Le 8:23) 15 Then the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand 16 and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. 17 And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lobe 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 top of the blood of the guilt offering. 18 And 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. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. (Le 4:26) 19 The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. 20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean. (Le 14:10; Le 14:18) 21 “But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil; (Le 5:7; Le 5:11; Le 12:8; Le 14:12) 22 also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. (Le 12:8) 23 And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the Lord. (Le 14:10) 24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. (Le 14:12) 25 And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering. And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe 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. (Le 14:14) 26 And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand, 27 and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord. 28 And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe 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, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put. 29 And 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 the Lord. 30 And he shall offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford, (Le 14:22; Le 15:15) 31 one[5] for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for him who is being cleansed. (Le 14:18) 32 This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.” (Le 14:10) 



33 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 34 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession, (Ge 17:8; Nu 32:22; De 32:49) 35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.’ (Ps 91:10; Zec 5:4) 36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest shall go in to see the house. 37 And he shall examine the disease. And if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface, 38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days. 39 And the priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the disease has spread in the walls of the house, 40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city. 41 And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city. 42 Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house. 43 “If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it, 44 then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean. (Le 13:51) 45 And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place. 46 Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening, 47 and whoever sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes. (Le 11:25) 48 “But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed. 49 And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop, (Le 14:4; Le 14:52) 50 and shall kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water 51 and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, along with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water and sprinkle the house seven times. 52 Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn. 53 And he shall let the live bird go out of the city into the open country. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.” (Le 14:7; Le 14:19) 54 This is the law for any case of leprous disease: for an itch, (Le 13:30) 55 for leprous disease in a garment or in a house, (Le 13:47; Le 14:34) 56 and for a swelling or an eruption or a spot, (Le 13:2) 57 to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprous disease. (Le 10:10) 

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