Law concerning leprosy. 1 LEVITICUS, XIII. she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest; 7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath borne a male or a female. B. C. 1490. a son of his year. 2 her hand b Is.64.6. 8 And if she be not able to bring a ac.5.7. lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or find not two young pigeons; the one for the burnt-sufficiency of. offering, and the other for a sin-offering: Jno.9.41. and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean. Aaron, saying, 3 d 3 or, swelling. Is.3.17. c De.28.27. 24.8. Mal.2.7. 2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a 3 rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his d De.17.8,9. sons the priests: 3 And the priest shall look on the plague Lu.17.14. in the skin of the flesh; and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean. 4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall f shut up him that hath the plague seven days: e Ex.9.9. 15.26. Nu.12.15. 5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread g 1 Cor.5.5. not in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more: 6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. Of discerning the leprosy. unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean. 12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh; 13 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: ' he is clean. 14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean. 15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean; for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy. 16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest; 17 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean. 18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed, 19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest; 20 And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil. 21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark, then the priest shall shut him up seven days: 22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague. 23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. 24 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish or white, 25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin, it is a leprosy broken out of the burning; wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy. 26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: 27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day; and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall 28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce c Le.10.6. him clean; for it is an inflammation of the burning. 29 If a man or woman hath a plaguee Eze.24.17, upon the head or the beard; d 21.10. d 1K1.8.38. 22. Mi.3.7. P's.51.3,5. Is.6.5; €4.6. Ro.3.23. 30 Then the priest shall see the plague: Job 42.6. and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard. 31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days: 32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin, 1 Cor.6.11. Pr.30.12. Nu.5.2. 12.14. 15.5. 2 K1.7.3. Ps.38.11. Ec.9.8. Is.61.10. Zec.3.3,4. Ja.5.2. 16.15. 33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days i ver.4-6. more: 1 work of. 2 vessel, or 34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall; and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. 35 But if the scall spread much in them skin after his cleansing, 36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean. c.14.44. Is.30.22. Of cleansing the leper." bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh, 44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his " head. 45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, f unclean. e h 46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone, without the shall his habitation be. camp 47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment, 48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin; 49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing 2 of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest: 50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days: 51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is k a fretting leprosy; it is unclean. c.11.33. 53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; 54 Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more: 55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed:" and, behold, if the plague have not changed his 2.20 22. colour, and the plague be not spread, it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be 3 bare within He.6.4-8. 1 Pe.1.9. o Ec.7.20. 3 bald in the flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot head thereof, or without. that groweth in the skin; he is clean. 40 And the man whose 4 hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean. 41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald; yet is he clean. 42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead. 43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his 56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof: 57 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire. 58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be Law concerning leprosy. LEVITICUS, XIV. departed from them, then it shall be washed B. C. 1490. the second time, and shall be clean. 59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean. CHAP. XIV. ND the LORD spake unto Moses, say Aing, 2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest: b 3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper, 4 Then shall the priest command to take a c.8.23. b Mat.8.2,4. Mar.1.44. Lu.5.12,14. 17.14. c ver.14. Rites and sacrifices. 14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it a upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: 15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand: 16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD: 17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon • the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right for him that is to be cleansed two birds or, sparrows. foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offer d Nu.19.6. He.9.19. 5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: e Ps.51.7. If ver.50. 5.6. 6 As for the living bird, he shall take c.4.26. it, and the cedar-wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: 7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy i seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose 2 into the open field. h i Nu.19.18,19. Is.52.15. Jno.19.34. 1 Jno.5.6. i 2 Ki.5.10,14. Ps 51.2. 2 upon the face of the field. j c.5.7. 8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad c.13.6. out of his tent seven days. 12.8. 3 his hand reach not. ! c.11.25. Ep.5.26. He.10.22. 1 Pe.3.21. waving. 8.7. 9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his Re.1.5,6. head, and his beard, and his eyebrows, m even all his hair he shall shave off: and hem Nu... sball wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. 10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one ewe-lamb of the first year without ble-s mish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat-offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. ing: 18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD. 19 And the priest shall offer the sinoffering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burntoffering. 20 And the priest shall offer the burntoffering and the meat-offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean. 21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass-offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering, and a log of oil; 22 And two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering. 23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD. 24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and the priest • shall wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD. 25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it upon the tip of the right car of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: 26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand: 27 And the priest 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 of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the righ ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass-offering: 29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD. 30 And he shall offer the one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get; 31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with the meat-offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD. 34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; i Am.6.11. 35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in Ps.91.10. the house; 36 Then the priest shall command that Pr.3.33. Pr.3.33. Zec.5.4. Law concerning leprosy. house, it is " a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean. 45 And he shall break down * the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place. d 46 Moreover, he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. 47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. 48 And if the priest 1 shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, e because the plague is healed. 49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: 51 And he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: 52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with they 2 empty the house, before the priest 2 or, prepare. the cedar-wood, and with the hyssop, and go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: k ver.20. s Re.22.15. with the scarlet: 57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy. CHAP. XV. AND the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and plague is, and they shall cast them into 4 or, running say unto them, When any man hath a runan unclean place without the city: 8 of the reins. t c.22.4. 2 Sa.3.29. Mat.9.20. 41 And he shall cause the house to be Nu.5.2. scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: 42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house. u Mar.7.20-23. 5 vessel. 2 Pe.2.20,22. 43 And if the plague come again, and He.6.4-8. break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered; I.1.16. 44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the Ja.4.8. 100 ning issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. 3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness. 4 Every bed whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and everything, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean. 5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, " and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, " and bathe himself in. Ceremonial purifications. LEVITICUS, XVI. water, and be unclean until the even. 7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. Ceremonial purifications B. C. 1490. that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtle-doves, or two young g c.14.22-31. pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest: 15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue. 16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. 17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. h c.11.47. Eze.44.23. He.12.14. i c.22.4. k De.23.10. c.19.30. 21.23. Nu.5.3. 19.13,20. Eze.5.11. 23.38 44.5.7. Da.9.27. 1 Cor.3.17. 18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both | Ex.19.15. bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even. 1 1 Sa.21.4. P8.51.5. 1 Cor.6.18. 1 Th.4.3-5. He.13.4. c.12.2. in c.10.1,2. 19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days; and whoso-in her sepever toucheth her shall be unclean until aration. the even. n Ex.30.10. He.9.7,8. 10.19. 20 And every thing that she lieth in her separation shall be unclean; every upon o Ex.25.22. 1 Ki.8.10. Ps.18.11. P q c.4.3. 23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. 24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean. of 25 And if a woman have an issue her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean. 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burntoffering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD, for the issue of her uncleanness. thing also that she sitteth upon shall be He.9.7, &c. the ark, that he die not: for I will appear unclean. 21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 22 And whosoever toucheth any thing| r Ex.28.39-43. c.6.10. Eze.44.17. in the cloud • upon the mercy-seat. 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy 11 place; with a young bullock for a sinoffering, and a ram for a burnt-offering. 4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, 101 |