1 Adonaisaid to Moshe,
2 “This is to be the law concerning the person afflicted withtzara‘aton the day of his purification. He is to be brought to thecohen,
3 and thecohenis to go outside the camp and examine him there. If he sees that thetzara‘atsores have been healed in the afflicted person,
4 then thecohenwill order that two living clean birds be taken for the one to be purified, along with cedar-wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop leaves.
5 Thecohenis to order one of the birds slaughtered in a clay pot over running water.
6 As for the live bird, he is to take it with the cedar-wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird slaughtered over running water,
7 and sprinkle the person to be purified from thetzara‘atseven times. Next he is to set the live bird free in an open field.
8 He who is to be purified must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water. Then he will be clean; and after that, he may enter the camp; but he must live outside his tent for seven days.
9 On the seventh day he is to shave all the hair off his head, also his beard and eyebrows — he must shave off all his hair; and he is to wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; and he will be clean.
10 “On the eighth day he is to take two male lambs without defect, one female lamb in its first year without defect and six-and-a-half quarts of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, and two-thirds of a pint of olive oil.
11 Thecohenpurifying him is to place the person being purified with these items beforeAdonaiat the entrance to the tent of meeting.
12 Thecohenis to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering with the two-thirds-pint of olive oil, then wave them as a wave offering beforeAdonai.(LY: ii)
13 He is to slaughter the male lamb at the place in the sanctuary for slaughtering sin offerings and burnt offerings, because the guilt offering belongs to thecohen, just like the sin offering; it is especially holy.
14 Thecohenis to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
15 Next, thecohenis to take some of the two-thirds-pint of olive oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand,
16 dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle from the oil with his finger seven times beforeAdonai.
17 Then thecohenis to put some of the remaining oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand, on the big toe of his right foot and on the blood of the guilt offering.
18 Finally, thecohenis to put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the person being purified; and thecohenwill make atonement for him beforeAdonai.
19 Thecohenis to offer the sin offering and make atonement for the person being purified because of his uncleanness; afterwards, he is to slaughter the burnt offering.
20 Thecohenis to offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar; thus thecohenwill make atonement for him; and he will be clean.
(RY: v, LY: iii)
21 “If he is poor, so that he can’t afford to do otherwise, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him; two quarts of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering; two-thirds of a pint of olive oil;
22 and two doves or two young pigeons, such as he can afford, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
23 On the eighth day, he will bring them to thecohenfor his purification, to the entrance of the tent of meeting beforeAdonai.
24 Thecohenis to take the lamb of the guilt offering and the two-thirds of a pint of olive oil and wave them as a wave offering beforeAdonai.
25 He is to slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering; and thecohenis to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
26 Thecohenis to take some of the olive oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand,
27 and sprinkle with his right hand some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times beforeAdonai.
28 Thecohenis to put some of the oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand, on the big toe of his right foot — in the same place as the blood of the guilt offering.
29 Finally, thecohenis to put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the person being purified, to make atonement for him beforeAdonai.
30 He is to offer one of the doves or young pigeons, such as the person can afford,
31 whatever his means suffice for — the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering — with the grain offering; thus thecohenwill make atonement beforeAdonaifor the person being purified.
32 Such is the law for the person who hastzara‘atsores if he cannot afford the usual elements used for his purification.”
(RY: vi, LY: iv)
33 Adonaisaid to Moshe and Aharon,
34 “When you have entered the land of Kena‘an which I am giving you as a possession, and I put an infection oftzara‘atin a house in the land that you possess,
35 then the owner of the house is to come and tell thecohen, ‘It seems to me that there may be an infection in the house.’
36 Thecohenis to order the house emptied before he goes in to inspect the infection, so that everything in the house won’t be made unclean; afterwards, thecohenis to enter and inspect the house.
37 He will examine the infection; and if he sees that the infection is in the walls of the house, with greenish or reddish depressions that seem to go in deeper than the surface of the wall,
38 he is to go out of the house to its door and seal up the house for seven days.
39 Thecohenwill come again on the seventh day and examine the house; if he sees that the infection has spread over its walls,
40 he is to order them to remove the infected stones and throw them into some unclean place outside the city.
41 Next, he is to have the inside of the house thoroughly scraped, and the scraped-off plaster is to be discarded outside the city in an unclean place.
42 Finally, other stones must be set in the place of the first stones and other plaster used to replaster the house.
43 If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after the stones have been removed and the house scraped and plastered;
44 then thecohenis to enter and examine it. If he sees that the infection has spread in the house, it is a contagioustzara‘atin the house; it is unclean.
45 He must break down the house and take its stones, timber and plaster out of the city to an unclean place.
46 Moreover, whoever enters the house at any time while it is sealed up will be unclean until evening.
47 Whoever lies down or eats in the house must wash his clothes.
48 If thecohenenters, examines and sees that the infection has not spread in the house since it was plastered; then he is to declare the house clean; because the infection is cured.
49 “To purify the house, he is to take two birds, cedar-wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop leaves.
50 He is to slaughter one of the birds in a clay pot over running water.
51 He is to take the cedar-wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52 He will purify the house with the blood of the bird, the running water, the live bird, the cedar-wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.
53 But he is to set the live bird free outside the city in an open field; thus will he make atonement for the house; and it will be clean.
(LY: v)
54 “Such is the law for all kinds oftzara‘atsores, for a crusted area,
55 fortzara‘atin a garment, for a house,
56 for a swelling, for a scab and for a bright spot,
57 to determine when it is clean and when it is unclean. This is the law concerningtzara‘at.”