1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 "This is to be the law for the leprous person on the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought to the priest.
3 The priest shall go out of the camp and look, and if the leprous disease has been healed in the leprous person,
4 the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedarwood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be taken for the one who is to be cleansed.
5 The priest shall order that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay vessel.
6 As for the live bird, he shall take it along with the cedarwood, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and dip them, together with the live bird, in the blood of the bird slaughtered over the fresh water.
7 He shall sprinkle it seven times on the one being cleansed from the leprosy and declare him clean, and he shall release the live bird over the open country.
8 The one being cleansed shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and he will be clean. Afterward he may enter the camp, but for seven days he must stay outside his tent.
9 On the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows; all his hair he shall shave off—and he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will be clean.
10 "On the eighth day he shall take two unblemished male lambs and one unblemished yearling ewe lamb, three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil.
11 The priest who performs the cleansing shall stand the man being cleansed, along with these things, before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
12 The priest shall take one male lamb and present it as a guilt offering together with the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
13 He shall slaughter the lamb at the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered, in the holy place; for like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest. It is most holy.
14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on his right thumb, and on the big toe of his right foot.
15 The priest shall also take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.
16 Then the priest shall dip the finger of his right hand into the oil in his left palm and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the LORD.
17 Of the oil remaining in his palm the priest shall put some on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on his right thumb, and on the big toe of his right foot, over the blood of the guilt offering.
18 What is left of the oil in the priest's palm he shall put on the head of the one being cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.
19 The priest shall then prepare the sin offering and make atonement for the one being cleansed from his uncleanness; after that he shall slaughter the burnt offering.
20 The priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be clean.
21 "If he is poor and his means do not reach that far, he shall take one male lamb as a guilt offering for waving, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil,
22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, as his means allow; one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
23 On the eighth day of his cleansing he shall bring them to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the LORD.
24 The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
25 He shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on his right thumb, 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,
27 and with the finger of his right hand the priest shall sprinkle some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the LORD.
28 The priest shall put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on his right thumb, and on the big toe of his right foot, at the place of the blood of the guilt offering.
29 What is left of the oil in the priest's palm he shall put on the head of the one being cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
30 Then he shall prepare one of the turtledoves or one of the young pigeons, whichever his means allow—
31 whatever his means allow, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the one being cleansed.
32 This is the law for one in whom there is a leprous disease, whose means do not reach to what belongs to his cleansing."
33 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
34 "When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put a leprous disease in a house in the land you possess,
35 the owner of the house shall come and report to the priest, 'Something like a disease has appeared to me in the house.'
36 The priest shall order the house cleared before he goes in to look at the disease, so that nothing in the house becomes unclean; after that the priest shall go in to see the house.
37 He shall look at the disease, and if the disease in the walls of the house consists of greenish or reddish hollows that look deeper than the surface of the wall,
38 the priest shall go out of the house to its doorway and close up the house for seven days.
39 On the seventh day the priest shall return and look, and if the disease has spread in the walls of the house,
40 the priest shall order that the stones with the disease be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
41 He shall have the house scraped inside all around, and the plaster they scrape off they shall dump outside the city in an unclean place.
42 Then they shall take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.
43 "If the disease returns and breaks out in the house after the stones have been pulled out and the house scraped and replastered,
44 the priest shall come and look, and if the disease has spread in the house, it is a destructive leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
45 The house shall be torn down—its stones, its timbers, and all the plaster of the house—and he shall carry it all out of the city to an unclean place.
46 Also, anyone who enters the house during any of the days it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
47 Anyone who lies down in the house must wash his clothes, and anyone who eats in the house must wash his clothes.
48 "But if the priest comes and looks, and the disease has in fact not spread in the house after the house was replastered, the priest shall declare the house clean, for the disease is healed.
49 For the purification of the house he shall take two birds, cedarwood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
50 He shall slaughter one bird over fresh water in a clay vessel,
51 then take the cedarwood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52 Thus he shall purify the house with the blood of the bird and the fresh water, along with the live bird, the cedarwood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.
53 He shall release the live bird outside the city over the open country. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it will be clean."
54 This is the law for any leprous disease, for the itch,
55 for leprosy in a garment or in a house,
56 and for a raised spot, a rash, or a shiny spot,
57 to teach when a thing is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.