4 he shall command him that is purified, that he offer for himself two live sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar-wood, and scarlet & hyssop,📜💬📚

5 and he shall command that one of the sparrows be immolated in an earthen vessel over living water:📜💬📚

6 but the other being alive, with the cedar-wood, and scarlet and the hyssop, he shall dip in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated,📜💬📚

7 wherewith he shall sprinkle him, that is to be cleansed, seven times, that he may be rightly purged: and he shall let go the live sparrow, that it fly into the field.📜💬📚

8 And when the man hath washed his cloths, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: & being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so for all that, that he tarry without his own tent seven days,📜💬📚

9 & the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, & his beard & eye-brows, and the hair of his whole body. And having washed again his cloths, and his body,📜💬📚

10 the eight day he shall take two lambs without spot, and an ewe of a year old without spot, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.📜💬📚

11 And when the Priest that purifieth the man, hath set him and all these things before the Lord in the door of the tabernacle of testimony,📜💬📚

12 he shall take a lamb, and offer it for offence, & the sextary of oil, and having offered all before the Lord,📜💬📚

13 he shall immolate the lamb, where the host for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in a holy place. For as for sin, so also the host for offence pertaineth to the Priest: it is Holy of holies.📜💬📚

14 And the Priest taking of the blood of the host, that was immolated for offence, shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumbs of his right hand and foot:📜💬📚

15 and of the sextary of oil he shall pour into his own left hand,📜💬📚

16 and shall dip his right finger in it and shall sprinkle before the Lord seven times.📜💬📚

17 and the residue of oil in his left hand, he shall pour upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumbs of his right hand and foot, and upon the blood that was shed for offence,📜💬📚

18 and upon his head.📜💬📚

19 And he shall pray for him before the Lord, and shall make the sacrifice for sin, then shall he immolate the holocaust,📜💬📚

20 and put it on the altar with the libaments thereof, and the man shall orderly be cleansed.📜💬📚

21 But if he be poor, and his hand can not find the things aforesaid, for offence he shall take a lamb for an oblation, that the Priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and of oil a sextary,📜💬📚

22 and two turtles or two young pigeons, of the which let one be for sin, & the other for an holocaust:📜💬📚

23 & he shall offer them the eight day of his purification to the Priest, at the door of the tabernacle of testimony before the Lord:📜💬📚

24 who receiving the lamb for offence, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together:📜💬📚

25 and the lamb being immolated, of the blood thereof he shall put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumbs of his right hand and foot:📜💬📚

26 but part of the oil he shall pour into his own left hand,📜💬📚

27 wherein dipping the finger of his right hand, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord:📜💬📚

28 and he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and the thumbs of his right hand & foot, in the place of the blood that was shed for offence:📜💬📚

29 & the other part of the oil, that is in his left hand, he shall pour upon the head of the purified person, that he may propitiate the Lord for him,📜💬📚

30 & a turtle, or young pigeon he shall offer,📜💬📚

31 one for offence, & the other for an holocaust, with their libaments.📜💬📚

32 This is the sacrifice of a leper, that is not able to have all things for the cleansing of himself.📜💬📚

Signs of Home Contamination

33 And our Lord spake to Moyses and Aaron, saying:📜💬📚

34 When you shall be entered into the Land of Chanaan, which I will give you in possession, if there be the plague of leprosy in a house,📜💬📚

35 he whose house it is, shall go and tell the Priest, saying: It seemeth to me, that there is as it were the plague of leprosy in my house,📜💬📚

36 But he shall command that they carry forth all things out of the house, before he go into it, and see whether it have the leprosy, lest all things become unclean that are in the house. And afterward he shall go in to consider the leprosy of the house:📜💬📚

37 & if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints, disfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all the rest,📜💬📚

38 he shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it seven days.📜💬📚

39 And returning the seventh day, he shall consider it. If he find that the leprosy is grown,📜💬📚

40 he shall command the stones wherein the leprosy is to be plucked out, and to be thrown without the city into an unclean place:📜💬📚

41 and the house it-self to be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scraping to be dispersed without the city into an unclean place,📜💬📚

42 and other stones to be laid in their places, that were taken away, and the house to be plastered with other mortar.📜💬📚

43 But if after the stones be plucked out, and the dust scraped off, & it be plastered with other earth,📜💬📚

44 the Priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house unclean:📜💬📚

45 the which forthwith they shall destroy, and the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust they shall cast without the town into an unclean place.📜💬📚

46 He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until even:📜💬📚

47 and he that sleepeth in it, & eateth any thing, shall wash his cloths.📜💬📚

Cleansing a Home

48 But if the Priest going in perceive that the leprosy is not grown farther in the house, after it was plastered again, he shall purify it being made whole again:📜💬📚

49 and for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:📜💬📚

50 and when one sparrow is immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters,📜💬📚

51 he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the live sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated, and in the living water, and he shall sprinkle the house seven times,📜💬📚

52 and shall purify it as well with the blood of the sparrow as with the living water and with the live sparrow, and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the scarlet.📜💬📚

53 And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house, & it shall be rightly cleansed.📜💬📚

54 This is the law of all leprosy and percussion,📜💬📚

55 of the leprosy of garments and houses,📜💬📚

56 of a scar and of blisters breaking forth, of a shining spot, and when the colours are changed into diverse kinds,📜💬📚

57 that it may be known at what time any thing is clean or unclean.📜💬📚

Douay Rheims Original ↷

Leviticus 14 📜 📕 ↷

Cleansing from Skin Diseases

Signs of Home Contamination

Cleansing a Home

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