Sinai & The Law

All the time that he is a leper and unclean he shall dwell alone without the camp.

A woollen or linen garment that shall have the leprosy

In the warp, and the woof: or skin, or whatsoever is made of a skin:

If it be infected with a white or red spot, it shall be accounted the leprosy, and shall be shewn to the priest.

And he shall look upon it and shall shut it up seven days.

And on the seventh day when he looketh on it again, if he find that it is grown, it is a fixed leprosy. He shall judge the garment unclean, and every thing wherein it shall be found.

And therefore it shall be burnt with fire.

But if he see that it is not grown,

He shall give orders, and they shall wash that part wherein the leprosy is: and he shall shut it up other seven days.

And when he shall see that the former colour is not returned, nor yet the leprosy spread, he shall judge it unclean: and shall burn it with fire, for the leprosy has taken hold of the outside of the garment, or through the whole.

But if the place of the leprosy be somewhat dark, after the garment is washed, he shall tear it off, and divide it from that which is sound.

And if after this there appear in those places that before were without spot, a flying and wandering leprosy: it must be burnt with fire.

If it cease, he shall wash with water the parts that are pure, the second time: and they shall be clean.

This is the law touching the leprosy of any woollen or linen garment, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins: how it ought to be cleaned, or pronounced unclean.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

This is the rite of a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall be brought to the priest:

Who going out of the camp, when he shall find that the leprosy is cleansed,

Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

And he shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters.

But the other that is alive, he shall dip, with the cedar wood, and the scarlet and the hyssop, in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated:

Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that is to be cleansed seven times, that he may be rightly purified. And he shall let go the living sparrow, that it may fly into the field.

And when the man hath washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent seven days.

And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and his beard and his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body. And having washed again his clothes, and his body,

On the eighth day, he shall take two lambs without blemish, and an ewe of a year old without blemish, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.

And when the priest that purifieth the man, hath presented him, and all these things before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: