Rules about a person who has become well again
1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 ‘These rules are for a person who has had a bad disease in his skin. When the disease has finished, you must bring him to the priest to make him clean. 3 The priest must go outside the camp and he must look carefully at the person's skin. If the disease has gone away, 4 this is what the priest must do. He must tell someone to bring two birds that are alive. They must be birds that are good for food. They must also bring a piece of wood from a cedar tree, some red wool and a branch of hyssop. The priest will use these to make the person clean.
5 The priest will command someone to kill one of the birds. He must do that over a clay pot that has fresh water in it. The blood of the dead bird will mix with the water. 6 The priest will take the living bird, the piece of cedar wood, the red wool and the hyssop. He will make them wet with the blood of the dead bird. 7 Then the priest will shake the blood over the person who had the disease. He will do this seven times. The priest will then say that the person is clean. He will let the living bird go so that it flies away.
8 The person who has become well from the disease must wash his clothes. He must cut off all his hair and wash his body with water. Then he will be clean. After that, he can go into the camp. But he must stay outside his tent for seven days. 9 On the seventh day, he must completely cut off all his hair. That includes all the hair of his head and his face. He must wash his clothes. He must wash his body with water. Then he will be clean.
10 On the eighth day, the person must bring two male lambs and one female lamb that is one year old. Both the animals must be perfect. He must also bring three tenths of an ephah of the best flour that is mixed with olive oil as a grain offering. And he must bring a cup of olive oil. 11 He must take these to the priest who is making him clean. The priest must tell the person to stand at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. He must bring his offerings to the Lord there.
14:10Three tenths of an ephah is about 6 litres.
12 The priest must take one of the male lambs and the cup of olive oil. He must lift them up to the Lord as a special gift. 13 He must kill the male lamb in the holy place where they kill the animals for sin offerings and burnt offerings. The guilt offering belongs to the priest, as the sin offering does. It is a very holy offering. 14 The priest must put some of the blood from the guilt offering on the lowest part of the person's right ear. He must put some blood on the thumb of the person's right hand. And he must put some blood on the big toe of the person's right foot. 15 The priest must pour some of the olive oil from the cup into his own left hand. 16 He must put one finger of his right hand into the oil that is in his left hand. He must shake the oil seven times in front of the Lord.
17 The priest must then take the oil that remains in his left hand. He must put some of it on the lowest part of the person's right ear. He must put some of the oil on the thumb of the person's right hand. And he must put some of it on the big toe of the person's right foot. He will put the oil on top of the blood from the offering. 18 The priest must take the oil that still remains in his left hand. He must put it on the person's head. In this way the priest will make the person clean from his disease in front of the Lord.
19 Then the priest must kill the animal for the sin offering. This makes the person who had the disease clean from his sins. After that, the priest will kill the animal for the burnt offering. 20 He will offer this as a sacrifice on the altar, together with the grain offering. The priest will do all these things to make the person who had the disease completely clean.
21 If the person is too poor to bring all these offerings, he may bring these things instead. He must bring one male lamb as a guilt offering to lift up in front of the Lord. That will be an offering to make him clean from his disease. He must also bring a tenth of an ephah of the best flour that is mixed with olive oil as a grain offering. And he must bring a cup of olive oil. 22 The person must also bring two birds that he has enough money to buy. They must be doves or pigeons. One bird will be for a sin offering and the other one will be for a burnt offering.
14:21A tenth of an ephah is about 2 litres.
23 On the eighth day, the person must bring his offerings to the Lord. He must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to make himself clean. 24 The priest will take the male lamb and the cup of oil. He will lift them up as a special gift to the Lord. 25 Then he will kill the lamb which is the guilt offering. He will put some of its blood on the lowest part of the person's right ear. He will put some of the blood on the thumb of the person's right hand. And he will put some of it on the big toe of the person's right foot.
26 The priest will pour some of the oil into his own left hand. 27 He will put one finger of his right hand into the oil. He will shake the oil seven times in front of the Lord. 28 He will put some oil from his hand on the lowest part of the person's right ear. He will also put some oil on the thumb of the person's right hand. And he will put some oil on the big toe of the person's right foot. He will put the oil on the same places that he put the blood from the guilt offering. 29 The priest must take the oil that still remains in his left hand. He must put it on the person's head. In that way the priest will make the person clean from his disease in front of the Lord.
30 Then the priest will offer the pigeons or the doves that the person has been able to buy. 31 One bird will be for a sin offering. The other will be for a burnt offering. The priest will offer these together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make the person clean in front of the Lord.
32 These are the rules for a poor person who had a bad disease in his skin. These are the offerings he must bring to make himself clean if he is too poor to bring all the usual offerings.’
