| New International Version | New Living Translation |
| 1The LORD said to Moses, | 1And the LORD said to Moses, |
| 2"These are the regulations for any diseased person at the time of their ceremonial cleansing, when they are brought to the priest: | 2“The following instructions are for those seeking ceremonial purification from a skin disease. Those who have been healed must be brought to the priest, |
| 3The priest is to go outside the camp and examine them. If they have been healed of their defiling skin disease, | 3who will examine them at a place outside the camp. If the priest finds that someone has been healed of a serious skin disease, |
| 4the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the person to be cleansed. | 4he will perform a purification ceremony, using two live birds that are ceremonially clean, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch. |
| 5Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over fresh water in a clay pot. | 5The priest will order that one bird be slaughtered over a clay pot filled with fresh water. |
| 6He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. | 6He will take the live bird, the cedar stick, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop branch, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water. |
| 7Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the defiling disease, and then pronounce them clean. After that, he is to release the live bird in the open fields. | 7The priest will then sprinkle the blood of the dead bird seven times on the person being purified of the skin disease. When the priest has purified the person, he will release the live bird in the open field to fly away. |
| 8"The person to be cleansed must wash their clothes, shave off all their hair and bathe with water; then they will be ceremonially clean. After this they may come into the camp, but they must stay outside their tent for seven days. | 8“The persons being purified must then wash their clothes, shave off all their hair, and bathe themselves in water. Then they will be ceremonially clean and may return to the camp. However, they must remain outside their tents for seven days. |
| 9On the seventh day they must shave off all their hair; they must shave their head, their beard, their eyebrows and the rest of their hair. They must wash their clothes and bathe themselves with water, and they will be clean. | 9On the seventh day they must again shave all the hair from their heads, including the hair of the beard and eyebrows. They must also wash their clothes and bathe themselves in water. Then they will be ceremonially clean. |
| 10"On the eighth day they must bring two male lambs and one ewe lamb a year old, each without defect, along with three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil. | 10“On the eighth day each person being purified must bring two male lambs and a one-year-old female lamb, all with no defects, along with a grain offering of six quarts of choice flour moistened with olive oil, and a cup of olive oil. |
| 11The priest who pronounces them clean shall present both the one to be cleansed and their offerings before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting. | 11Then the officiating priest will present that person for purification, along with the offerings, before the LORD at the entrance of the Tabernacle. |
| 12"Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil; he shall wave them before the LORD as a wave offering. | 12The priest will take one of the male lambs and the olive oil and present them as a guilt offering, lifting them up as a special offering before the LORD. |
| 13He is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy. | 13He will then slaughter the male lamb in the sacred area where sin offerings and burnt offerings are slaughtered. As with the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest. It is a most holy offering. |
| 14The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot. | 14The priest will then take some of the blood of the guilt offering and apply it to the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified. |
| 15The priest shall then take some of the log of oil, pour it in the palm of his own left hand, | 15“Then the priest will pour some of the olive oil into the palm of his own left hand. |
| 16dip his right forefinger into the oil in his palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of it before the LORD seven times. | 16He will dip his right finger into the oil in his palm and sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the LORD. |
| 17The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering. | 17The priest will then apply some of the oil in his palm over the blood from the guilt offering that is on the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified. |
| 18The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed and make atonement for them before the LORD. | 18The priest will apply the oil remaining in his hand to the head of the person being purified. Through this process, the priest will purify the person before the LORD. |
| 19"Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from their uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering | 19“Then the priest must present the sin offering to purify the person who was cured of the skin disease. After that, the priest will slaughter the burnt offering |
| 20and offer it on the altar, together with the grain offering, and make atonement for them, and they will be clean. | 20and offer it on the altar along with the grain offering. Through this process, the priest will purify the person who was healed, and the person will be ceremonially clean. |
| 21"If, however, they are poor and cannot afford these, they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of oil, | 21“But anyone who is too poor and cannot afford these offerings may bring one male lamb for a guilt offering, to be lifted up as a special offering for purification. The person must also bring two quarts of choice flour moistened with olive oil for the grain offering and a cup of olive oil. |
| 22and two doves or two young pigeons, such as they can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. | 22The offering must also include two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever the person can afford. One of the pair must be used for the sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. |
| 23"On the eighth day they must bring them for their cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the LORD. | 23On the eighth day of the purification ceremony, the person being purified must bring the offerings to the priest in the LORD’s presence at the entrance of the Tabernacle. |
| 24The priest is to take the lamb for the guilt offering, together with the log of oil, and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering. | 24The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering, along with the olive oil, and lift them up as a special offering to the LORD. |
| 25He shall slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot. | 25Then the priest will slaughter the lamb for the guilt offering. He will take some of its blood and apply it to the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified. |
| 26The priest is to pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand, | 26“The priest will also pour some of the olive oil into the palm of his own left hand. |
| 27and with his right forefinger sprinkle some of the oil from his palm seven times before the LORD. | 27He will dip his right finger into the oil in his palm and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD. |
| 28Some of the oil in his palm he is to put on the same places he put the blood of the guilt offering--on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot. | 28The priest will then apply some of the oil in his palm over the blood from the guilt offering that is on the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified. |
| 29The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for them before the LORD. | 29The priest will apply the oil remaining in his hand to the head of the person being purified. Through this process, the priest will purify the person before the LORD. |
| 30Then he shall sacrifice the doves or the young pigeons, such as the person can afford, | 30“Then the priest will offer the two turtledoves or the two young pigeons, whichever the person can afford. |
| 31one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD on behalf of the one to be cleansed." | 31One of them is for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, to be presented along with the grain offering. Through this process, the priest will purify the person before the LORD. |
| 32These are the regulations for anyone who has a defiling skin disease and who cannot afford the regular offerings for their cleansing. | 32These are the instructions for purification for those who have recovered from a serious skin disease but who cannot afford to bring the offerings normally required for the ceremony of purification.” Treatment of Contaminated Houses |
| 33The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, | 33Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, |
| 34"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land, | 34“When you arrive in Canaan, the land I am giving you as your own possession, I may contaminate some of the houses in your land with mildew. |
| 35the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, 'I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.' | 35The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, ‘It appears that my house has some kind of mildew.’ |
| 36The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house. | 36Before the priest goes in to inspect the house, he must have the house emptied so nothing inside will be pronounced ceremonially unclean. |
| 37He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall, | 37Then the priest will go in and examine the mildew on the walls. If he finds greenish or reddish streaks and the contamination appears to go deeper than the wall’s surface, |
| 38the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days. | 38the priest will step outside the door and put the house in quarantine for seven days. |
| 39On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mold has spread on the walls, | 39On the seventh day the priest must return for another inspection. If he finds that the mildew on the walls of the house has spread, |
| 40he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town. | 40the priest must order that the stones from those areas be removed. The contaminated material will then be taken outside the town to an area designated as ceremonially unclean. |
| 41He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the material that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the town. | 41Next the inside walls of the entire house must be scraped thoroughly and the scrapings dumped in the unclean place outside the town. |
| 42Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house. | 42Other stones will be brought in to replace the ones that were removed, and the walls will be replastered. |
| 43"If the defiling mold reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered, | 43“But if the mildew reappears after all the stones have been replaced and the house has been scraped and replastered, |
| 44the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mold has spread in the house, it is a persistent defiling mold; the house is unclean. | 44the priest must return and inspect the house again. If he finds that the mildew has spread, the walls are clearly contaminated with a serious mildew, and the house is defiled. |
| 45It must be torn down--its stones, timbers and all the plaster--and taken out of the town to an unclean place. | 45It must be torn down, and all its stones, timbers, and plaster must be carried out of town to the place designated as ceremonially unclean. |
| 46"Anyone who goes into the house while it is closed up will be unclean till evening. | 46Those who enter the house during the period of quarantine will be ceremonially unclean until evening, |
| 47Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash their clothes. | 47and all who sleep or eat in the house must wash their clothing. |
| 48"But if the priest comes to examine it and the mold has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the defiling mold is gone. | 48“But if the priest returns for his inspection and finds that the mildew has not reappeared in the house after the fresh plastering, he will pronounce it clean because the mildew is clearly gone. |
| 49To purify the house he is to take two birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop. | 49To purify the house the priest must take two birds, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch. |
| 50He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot. | 50He will slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot filled with fresh water. |
| 51Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times. | 51He will take the cedar stick, the hyssop branch, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, and dip them into the blood of the slaughtered bird and into the fresh water. Then he will sprinkle the house seven times. |
| 52He shall purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn. | 52When the priest has purified the house in exactly this way, |
| 53Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean." | 53he will release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. Through this process, the priest will purify the house, and it will be ceremonially clean. |
| 54These are the regulations for any defiling skin disease, for a sore, | 54“These are the instructions for dealing with serious skin diseases, including scabby sores; |
| 55for defiling molds in fabric or in a house, | 55and mildew, whether on clothing or in a house; |
| 56and for a swelling, a rash or a shiny spot, | 56and a swelling on the skin, a rash, or discolored skin. |
| 57to determine when something is clean or unclean. These are the regulations for defiling skin diseases and defiling molds. | 57This procedure will determine whether a person or object is ceremonially clean or unclean. “These are the instructions regarding skin diseases and mildew.” |
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