New American Standard Bible 2020
Leviticus 14:1-32
1Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“This shall be the law of the person with leprosy on the day of his cleansing. 1Now he shall be brought to the priest; 3and the priest shall go 2out to a place outside of the camp. Then the priest shall look, and if the 3leprous infection has been healed in the person with leprosy, 4then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds, 4cedar wood, a 5scarlet string, and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed. 5The priest shall also give orders to slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over 6running water. 6As for the live bird, he shall take it together with 7the cedar wood, the 8scarlet string, and the 9hyssop, and shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the 10running water. 711He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird go free over the open field. 812The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair, and bathe in water and 13be clean. And afterward he may enter the camp, but he 14shall stay outside his tent for seven days. 9Then it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his 15body in water and 16be clean.
10“Now on the eighth day he is to take two male lambs without defect, and a yearling ewe lamb without defect, and three-tenths of an 17ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one 1819log of oil; 11and the priest who is going to pronounce him clean shall present the person to be cleansed and 20the offerings before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 12Then the priest shall take the one male lamb and bring it as a 21guilt offering, with the 2223log of oil, and present them as a 24wave offering before the Lord. 13Next he shall slaughter the male lamb in 25the place where they slaughter the 26sin offering and the burnt offering, at the place of the sanctuary--for the guilt offering, 27like the 28sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy. 14The priest shall then take some of the blood of the 29guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on 30the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 15The priest shall also take some of the 3132log of oil, and pour it into his left palm; 16the priest shall then dip his right-hand finger into the oil that is in his left palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the Lord. 17Of the remaining oil which is in his palm, the priest shall 33put some on the right ear lobe of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering; 18as for the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm, he shall put it on the head of the one to be cleansed. So the priest shall make 34atonement on his behalf before the Lord. 19The priest shall next offer the 3536sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterward, he shall slaughter the burnt offering. 20The priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and 37he will be clean.
21“38But if he is poor and his 39means are insufficient, then he is to take one male lamb for a 40guilt offering as a wave offering to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an 41ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a 4243log of oil, 22and two turtledoves or two young doves, which 44are within his means. 45The one shall be a 4647sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. 2348Then on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, before the Lord. 24The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and 49the 50log of oil, and the priest shall offer them as a wave offering before the Lord. 25Next he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on 51the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 26The priest shall also pour some of the oil into his left palm; 27and with his right-hand finger the priest shall sprinkle some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before the Lord. 28The priest shall then put some of the oil that is in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering. 29Moreover, the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm, he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement on his behalf before the Lord. 30He shall then offer one of the turtledoves or young doves, 52which are within his means. 31He shall offer what 53he can afford, 54the one as a 55sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. So the priest shall make atonement before the Lord on behalf of the one to be cleansed. 32This is the law for him in whom there is an infection of leprosy, whose 56means are limited for his cleansing.”
Notes
- 1. Leviticus 14:2 Matt 8:4; Mark 1:44; Luke 5:14; 17:14 ↩
- 2. Leviticus 14:3 Lev 13:46 ↩
- 3. Leviticus 14:3 I.e., or a serious, unspecified disease, and so throughout the ch ↩
- 4. Leviticus 14:4 Lev 14:6, 49, 51, 52; Num 19:6 ↩
- 5. Leviticus 14:4 Lit scarlet color and ↩
- 6. Leviticus 14:5 Lit living ↩
- 7. Leviticus 14:6 Lev 14:4 ↩
- 8. Leviticus 14:6 Lit scarlet color and ↩
- 9. Leviticus 14:6 Ps 51:7 ↩
- 10. Leviticus 14:6 Lit living ↩
- 11. Leviticus 14:7 Ezek 36:25 ↩
- 12. Leviticus 14:8 Lev 11:25; 13:6; Num 8:7 ↩
- 13. Leviticus 14:8 Lev 14:9, 20 ↩
- 14. Leviticus 14:8 Num 5:2, 3; 12:14, 15; 2 Chr 26:21 ↩
- 15. Leviticus 14:9 Lit flesh ↩
- 16. Leviticus 14:9 Lev 14:8, 20 ↩
- 17. Leviticus 14:10 About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters ↩
- 18. Leviticus 14:10 About 0.6 pt. or 0.3 liter ↩
- 19. Leviticus 14:10 Lev 14:12, 15, 21, 24 ↩
- 20. Leviticus 14:11 Lit them ↩
- 21. Leviticus 14:12 Lev 5:6, 18; 6:6; 14:19 ↩
- 22. Leviticus 14:12 About 0.6 pt. or 0.3 liter ↩
- 23. Leviticus 14:12 Lev 14:10 ↩
- 24. Leviticus 14:12 Ex 29:22-24, 26 ↩
- 25. Leviticus 14:13 Ex 29:11; Lev 1:11; 4:24 ↩
- 26. Leviticus 14:13 Or purification offering ↩
- 27. Leviticus 14:13 Lev 6:24-30; 7:7 ↩
- 28. Leviticus 14:13 Or purification offering ↩
- 29. Leviticus 14:14 Lev 14:19 ↩
- 30. Leviticus 14:14 Ex 29:20; Lev 8:23, 24 ↩
- 31. Leviticus 14:15 About 0.6 pt. or 0.3 liter ↩
- 32. Leviticus 14:15 Lev 14:10 ↩
- 33. Leviticus 14:17 Lev 14:28 ↩
- 34. Leviticus 14:18 Lev 4:26; Num 15:28; Heb 2:17 ↩
- 35. Leviticus 14:19 Or purification offering ↩
- 36. Leviticus 14:19 Lev 14:12 ↩
- 37. Leviticus 14:20 Lev 14:8, 9 ↩
- 38. Leviticus 14:21 Lev 5:11; 12:8; 27:8 ↩
- 39. Leviticus 14:21 Lit hand is not reaching ↩
- 40. Leviticus 14:21 Lev 14:22 ↩
- 41. Leviticus 14:21 About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters ↩
- 42. Leviticus 14:21 About 0.6 pt. or 0.3 liter ↩
- 43. Leviticus 14:21 Lev 14:10 ↩
- 44. Leviticus 14:22 Lit his hand reaches ↩
- 45. Leviticus 14:22 Lev 5:7 ↩
- 46. Leviticus 14:22 Or purification offering ↩
- 47. Leviticus 14:22 Lev 14:21, 24, 25 ↩
- 48. Leviticus 14:23 Lev 14:10, 11 ↩
- 49. Leviticus 14:24 Lev 14:10 ↩
- 50. Leviticus 14:24 About 0.6 pt. or 0.3 liter ↩
- 51. Leviticus 14:25 Lev 14:14 ↩
- 52. Leviticus 14:30 Lit from which his hand reaches ↩
- 53. Leviticus 14:31 Lit his hand reaches ↩
- 54. Leviticus 14:31 Lev 5:7 ↩
- 55. Leviticus 14:31 Or purification offering ↩
- 56. Leviticus 14:32 Lit hand does not reach ↩
Commentaries on Leviticus 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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