Law for Cleansing the Leper

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ADONAI said to Moshe,

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"This is to be the law concerning the person afflicted with tzara'at on the day of his purification. He is to be brought to the cohen,

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and the cohen is to go outside the camp and examine him there. If he sees that the tzara'at sores have been healed in the afflicted person,

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then the cohen will order that two living clean birds be taken for the one to be purified, along with cedar-wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop leaves.

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The cohen is to order one of the birds slaughtered in a clay pot over running water.

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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,

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and sprinkle the person to be purified from the tzara'at seven times. Next he is to set the live bird free in an open field.

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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.

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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.

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