Leviticus 14
Leviticus 14:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 14:2 “This will be the instruction of the person with a rash for the day of his cleansing. He will be brought to the priest,
Leviticus 14:3 and the priest will go out of the camp, and the priest will look. Then, if he notices that the case of skin disease is healed in the person with the rash,
Leviticus 14:4 the priest will command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live pure birds and cedar wood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.
Leviticus 14:5 And the priest will command them to kill one of the birds in a clay pottery container over fresh water.
Leviticus 14:6 He will take the live bird with the cedar wood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.
Leviticus 14:7 And he will spritz it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the skin disease. Then he will pronounce him clean and will let the living bird go into the face of the field.
Leviticus 14:8 And he who is to be cleansed will wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he will be clean. And after that he may come into the camp but stay outside his tent seven days.
Leviticus 14:9 And on the seventh day he will shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He will shave off all his hair, and then he will wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will be clean.
Leviticus 14:10 “And on the eighth day he will take two male perfect lambs, and one perfect ewe lamb a year old, and a tribute offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
Leviticus 14:11 And the priest who cleanses him will set the man who is to be cleansed and these things to Yahveh’s face, at the entrance of the conference tent.
Leviticus 14:12 And the priest will take one of the male lambs and offer it for a reparation offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering to Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 14:13 And he will kill the lamb in the place where they kill the failure offering and the ascending offering in the place of the sanctuary. For the reparation offering, like the failure offering, belongs to the priest; it is most sacred.
Leviticus 14:14 The priest will take some of the blood of the reparation offering, and the priest will put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
Leviticus 14:15 Then the priest will take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand
Leviticus 14:16 and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and spritz some oil with his finger seven times to Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 14:17 And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest will put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the reparation offering.
Leviticus 14:18 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he will put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest will provide reconciliation for him to Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 14:19 The priest will offer the failure offering, to provide reconciliation for him who is to be cleansed from his contamination. And afterward he will kill the ascending offering.
Leviticus 14:20 And the priest will offer the ascending offering and the tribute offering on the altar. This is how the priest will provide reconciliation for him, and he will be clean.
Leviticus 14:21 “But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he will take one male lamb for a reparation offering to be waved, to provide reconciliation for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a tribute offering, and a log of oil;
Leviticus 14:22 also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one will be a failure offering and the other an ascending offering.
Leviticus 14:23 And on the eighth day he will bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the conference tent, to Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 14:24 And the priest will take the lamb of the reparation offering and the log of oil, and the priest will wave them for a wave offering to Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 14:25 And he will kill the lamb of the reparation offering. And the priest will take some of the blood of the reparation offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
Leviticus 14:26 And the priest will pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,
Leviticus 14:27 and will spritz with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times to Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 14:28 And the priest will put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the reparation offering was put.
Leviticus 14:29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he will put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to provide reconciliation for him to Yahveh’s face.
Leviticus 14:30 And he will offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford,
Leviticus 14:31 one for a failure offering and the other for an ascending offering along with a tribute offering. And the priest will provide reconciliation to Yahveh’s face for him who is being cleansed.
Leviticus 14:32 This is the instruction for him in whom is a case of skin disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.”
Leviticus 14:33 Yahveh spoke to Moses and Aaron, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 14:34 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of skin disease in a house in the land of your possession,
Leviticus 14:35 then the owner the house will come and tell the priest, and this is what he should say, ‘There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.’
Leviticus 14:36 Then the priest will command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, or else all that is in the house be declared contaminated. And afterward the priest will go in to see the house.
Leviticus 14:37 And he will examine the disease. And if he notices that the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be lower than the wall,
Leviticus 14:38 then the priest will go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.
Leviticus 14:39 And the priest will come again on the seventh day, and look. If he notices that the disease has spread in the walls of the house,
Leviticus 14:40 then the priest will command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into a contaminated place outside the city.
Leviticus 14:41 And he will have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they will pour out in a contaminated place outside the city.
Leviticus 14:42 Then they will take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he will take other plaster and plaster the house.
Leviticus 14:43 “If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,
Leviticus 14:44 then the priest will go and look. And if he notices that the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent skin disease in the house; it is contaminated.
Leviticus 14:45 And he will break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he will carry them out of the city to a contaminated place.
Leviticus 14:46 Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up will be contaminated until the evening,
Leviticus 14:47 and whoever sleeps in the house will wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house will wash his clothes.
Leviticus 14:48 “But if the priest comes and looks, and if he notices that the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest will pronounce the house clean, because the disease is healed.
Leviticus 14:49 And for the cleansing of the house he will take two small birds, with cedar wood and scarlet yarn and hyssop,
Leviticus 14:50 and will kill one of the birds in a clay pottery container over fresh water
Leviticus 14:51 and will take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, along with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water and spritz the house seven times.
Leviticus 14:52 Thus he will cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet yarn.
Leviticus 14:53 And he will let the live bird go out of the city into the face of the field. So, he will provide reconciliation for the house, and it will be clean.”
Leviticus 14:54 This is the instruction for any case of skin disease: for an itch,
Leviticus 14:55 for skin disease in clothes or in a house,
Leviticus 14:56 and for a swelling or an eruption or a spot,
Leviticus 14:57 to show when it is contaminated and when it is pure. This is the instruction for skin disease.
Leviticus 14 quotes:
“God uses leprosy in Leviticus 14 to illustrate how our sins were cleansed in Jesus 2000 years ago on the cross. This is the same chapter Jesus referred to in Matthew 8:1-4 after He healed a leper. When the leper was “cleansed” or healed, Jesus told him to follow the prescription in Leviticus 14. A healed leper would undergo a specific ritual designed to teach about the Messiah and His redemptive work.”
Stringer, Doug. Born to Die : So We May Live. Bridge-Logos, 2006. p. 113.
“Second, if, after patient examination, we see that the plague is spreading in the house, we must take action. The rebellious child who will not respond to proper discipline, the church member who defies the church — these must be removed from the house (Leviticus 14:40), lest the house should come to ruin. Remember the balance in Paul’s admonition: “Do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother” (2 Thessalonians 3:14-15).”
Rosenbaum, Philip. How to Enjoy the Boring Parts of the Bible. 1st ed, Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1991. p. 94.
” It was a priority to rid the house of what was so real and potentially destructive in the invisible realm that its power was manifested in the physical realm. Such a leprosy had to be dealt with by spiritual redemption. So it was that sacrifice was offered. Elaborate detail is given to this, and appropriately so, for each facet forecasts a different aspect of the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. “
Hayford, Jack W. Glory on Your House. 1st pbk. ed, Chosen Books, 1991. p. 62.
Leviticus 14 links:
devoted families
domestic demolition
domestic renewal
in case of poverty
pure and free
restored devotion
testimonies to healing
the law for leprosy
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