Bible verses about "leprosy" | NSB

¹ Jehovah said to Moses: ² »Command the Israelites to send outside the camp anyone who has a serious skin disease or a discharge or anyone who is unclean from touching a dead body. ³ »Send all of these unclean men and women outside the camp. They must not make this camp where I live among you unclean.«

² »Command the Israelites to send outside the camp anyone who has a serious skin disease or a discharge or anyone who is unclean from touching a dead body.

¹ Jehovah gave Moses and Aaron these regulations: ² »If any of you have a sore on your skin or a boil or an inflammation that could develop into a dreaded skin disease, you shall be brought to the priest. ³ »The priest will examine the sore. If the hairs in it have turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the surrounding skin, it is a dreaded skin disease, and the priest will pronounce you unclean. ⁴ »If the sore is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin around it and the hairs have not turned white, the priest will isolate you for seven days. ⁵ »The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If in his opinion the sore looks the same and has not spread, he will isolate you for another seven days. ⁶ »The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If the sore has faded and has not spread, he will pronounce you ritually clean. It is only a sore. You will wash your clothes and be ritually clean. ⁷ »If the sore spreads after the priest has examined you and pronounced you clean, you must return to the priest again. ⁸ »The priest will examine you again. If it has spread, he will pronounce you unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease. ⁹ »If any of you have a dreaded skin disease, you should be brought to the priest. ¹⁰ »He will examine you. If there is a white sore on your skin that turns the hairs white and is full of pus, ¹¹ it is a chronic skin disease. The priest will pronounce you unclean. There is no need to isolate you. You are obviously unclean. ¹² »If the skin disease spreads and covers you from head to foot, ¹³ the priest should examine you again. If he finds that it actually has covered the whole body, he will pronounce you ritually clean. If your whole skin has turned white you are ritually clean. ¹⁴ »The moment an open sore appears you are unclean. ¹⁵ »The priest will examine you again. If he sees an open sore, he will pronounce you unclean. An open sore means a dreaded skin disease. You are unclean. ¹⁶ »When the sore heals and becomes white again, you should go to the priest. ¹⁷ »He will examine you again. If the sore has turned white you are ritually clean. The priest will pronounce you clean. ¹⁸ »If you have a boil that has healed ¹⁹ and if afterward a white swelling or a reddish-white spot appears where the boil was, you should go to the priest. ²⁰ »The priest will examine you. If the spot seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it have turned white, he will pronounce you unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease that has started in the boil. ²¹ »If the priest examines it and finds that the hairs in it have not turned white and that it is not deeper than the surrounding skin, but is light in color, the priest will isolate you for seven days. ²² »If the spot spreads the priest shall pronounce you unclean. You are diseased. ²³ »If it remains unchanged and does not spread, it is only the scar left from the boil. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean. ²⁴ »In case any of you have been burned. If the raw flesh becomes white or reddish-white, ²⁵ the priest will examine it. If the hair on the affected area has turned white and the affected area looks deeper than the rest of the skin, an infectious skin disease has developed in the burn. The priest will pronounce you unclean. It is an infectious skin disease. ²⁶ »But if the priest examines it and the hair in it is not white and the affected area is not deeper than the rest of the skin but has faded, the priest must put you in isolation for seven days. ²⁷ »The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If it is spreading it is a dreaded skin disease. The priest will pronounce you unclean. ²⁸ »If the spot remains unchanged and does not spread and is light in color, it is not a dreaded skin disease. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean, because it is only a scar from the burn. ²⁹ »When any of you, male or female, have a sore on your head or chin, ³⁰ the priest will examine it. If it seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it are yellowish and thin, it is a dreaded skin disease. He will declare you unclean. ³¹ »If the priest examines you and finds the sore does not appear to be deeper than the surrounding skin, but there are still no healthy hairs in it, he will isolate you for seven days. ³² »The priest will examine the sore again on the seventh day. If it has not spread and there are no yellowish hairs in it and it does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin, ³³ you will shave the head accept the area around the sore. The priest will isolate you for another seven days. ³⁴ »The priest will again examine the sore on the seventh day. If it has not spread and does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin, he will declare you ritually clean. You will wash your clothes. You will be clean. ³⁵ »If the sore spreads after you have been pronounced clean, ³⁶ the priest will examine you again. If the sore has spread, he need not look for yellowish hairs. You are obviously unclean. ³⁷ »If in the priest's opinion the sore has not spread and healthy hairs are growing in it, the sore has healed. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean. ³⁸ »When you, male or female, have white spots on the skin, ³⁹ the priest shall examine you. If the spots are dull white, it is only a blemish that has broken out on the skin. You are ritually clean. ⁴⁰ »Loss of hair makes one bald not unclean. ⁴¹ »Hair losses from the forehead or the back of the head do not make one unclean. ⁴² »If a reddish-white sore appears on the bald spot, it is a dreaded skin disease. ⁴³ »The priest will examine you. If there is a reddish-white sore, ⁴⁴ the priest will declare you unclean. You have a dreaded skin disease on your head. ⁴⁵ »If you have a dreaded skin disease, you must wear torn clothes, leave your hair uncombed, cover the lower part of your face, and call out: Unclean, unclean! ⁴⁶ »You remain unclean as long as you have the disease. You must live outside the camp, away from others. ⁴⁷ »When there is mildew on clothing, whether wool or linen, ⁴⁸ or on any woven piece of linen or wool cloth or on leather or anything made of leather, ⁴⁹ if it is greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew and must be shown to the priest. ⁵⁰ »The priest shall examine it and put the object away for seven days. ⁵¹ »He will examine it again on the seventh day. If the mildew has spread, the object is unclean. ⁵² »The priest will burn it, because it is a spreading mildew. It must be destroyed by fire. ⁵³ »If the priest finds that the mildew has not spread on the object, ⁵⁴ he will order that it be washed and put away for another seven days. ⁵⁵ »He shall examine it again and if the mildew has not changed color, even though it has not spread, it is still unclean. You must burn the object, whether the rot is on the front or the back. ⁵⁶ »When the priest examines it again, the mildew has faded; he will tear it out of the clothing or leather. ⁵⁷ »Then if the mildew reappears, it is spreading again, and the owner must burn the object. ⁵⁸ »If he washes the object and the spot disappears, he should wash it again. It will be ritually clean.« ⁵⁹ This is the law about mildew on clothing. Whether it is wool or linen, or on linen or wool cloth or on anything made of leather; this is how the decision is made as to whether it is ritually clean or unclean.

²⁷ »Naaman's leprosy will come upon you. You and your descendants will have it from generation to generation!« When Gehazi left, he had the disease. His skin was as white as snow.

³ He reached out his hand and touched him, saying: »I want to. Be made clean.« Right away his leprosy was cleansed. ⁴ Jesus told him not to tell anyone. »Show yourself to the priests and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.«

¹³ He stretched forth his hand and touched him, saying: »I want to, be made clean.« Immediately the leprosy departed from him. ¹⁴ He told him to tell no one and go and show himself to the priest. Then he was to make a cleansing offering, just as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

¹ Jehovah gave Moses ² the following regulations about the ritual purification of those of you cured of a dreaded skin disease: »On the day you are to be pronounced clean, you should be brought to the priest. ³ »The priest will take you outside the camp and examine you. If the disease is healed, ⁴ the priest will order that two ritually clean birds be brought, along with a piece of cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop. ⁵ »The priest will order that one of the birds be killed over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water. ⁶ »He will take the other bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the red cord, and the hyssop, in the blood of the bird that was killed. ⁷ »He will sprinkle the blood seven times on the one of you who is to be purified from your skin disease. He will then pronounce you clean. He will let the live bird fly away over the open fields. ⁸ »You must wash your clothes, shave off all your hair, and take a bath. You will then be ritually clean. You may enter the camp. You must live outside your tent for seven days. ⁹ »On the seventh day you should again shave your head, your beard, your eyebrows, and all the rest of the hair on your body. You should wash your clothes and take a bath. Then you will be ritually clean. ¹⁰ »The eighth day bring two male lambs and one female lamb a year old that are without any defects. Also bring five pounds of flour mixed with olive oil, and half a pint of olive oil. ¹¹ »The priest will take you and these offerings to the entrance of the Tent of Jehovah’s presence. ¹² »Then the priest will take one of the male lambs and together with the half pint of oil he will offer it as a repayment offering. He will present them as a special gift to Jehovah for the priest. ¹³ »He will slaughter the lamb in the holy place where the animals for the sin offerings and the burnt offerings are slaughtered. He must do this because the repayment offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest and is very holy. ¹⁴ »The priest will take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. ¹⁵ »The priest will also take some of the olive oil and pour it into his own left hand. ¹⁶ »He will dip his right finger in the oil in his left hand, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times in Jehovah’s presence. ¹⁷ »The priest will put some of the oil that is still in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering. ¹⁸ »The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed. So he will pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for that person in Jehovah’s presence. ¹⁹ »The priest will also sacrifice the offering for sin to make peace with Jehovah for the one who is being cleansed from his impurity. After that, he will slaughter the burnt offering. ²⁰ »He will sacrifice the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for that person. The person who had the skin disease will be clean. ²¹ »If the one to be cleansed is poor and cannot afford that much, he must take one male lamb, present it to pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for himself, and use it for his guilt offering. He will take only eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, a quart of olive oil, ²² and two mourning doves or two pigeons, whatever he can afford. The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering. ²³ »The eighth day he will take them to the priest for his cleansing at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting in Jehovah’s presence. ²⁴ »The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the quart of olive oil and present them to Jehovah. ²⁵ »He will slaughter the lamb as a guilt offering. The priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. ²⁶ »The priest will pour some of the olive oil into his own left hand. ²⁷ »In Jehovah’s presence he will sprinkle some of the oil with his right finger seven times. ²⁸ »The priest will put some of the oil that is in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering. ²⁹ »In Jehovah’s presence, the priest will pour the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed in order to make a payment for him. ³⁰ »The one to be cleansed must take one of the mourning doves or pigeons, the one he can afford, ³¹ and sacrifice it as an offering for sin. He will take the other and sacrifice it as a burnt offering together with the grain offering. So in Jehovah’s presence the priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for the one who is being cleansed. ³² »These are the instructions for one who has an infectious skin disease but cannot afford what is needed for his cleansing.« ³³ Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron: ³⁴ »When you come to Canaan that I am going to give to you, mildew may appear in a house. ³⁵ »The owner of that house must come and tell the priest that there is something that looks like mildew in his house. ³⁶ »Before the priest examines the house, he will order everything taken out of it so that nothing in the house will become unclean. Then the priest will go inside to examine the house. ³⁷ »He will examine the mildew area on the walls. If it is green and red in sunken areas that are deeper than the rest of the wall, ³⁸ the priest will go out to the door of the house and close up the house for seven days. ³⁹ »The priest will go back and examine it again on the seventh day. If the mildew in the walls of the house has spread, ⁴⁰ he must order the stones that have the mildew to be torn out and thrown outside the city in an unclean place. ⁴¹ »He must have the entire inside of the house scraped. The plaster dust scraped off the walls must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city. ⁴² »The stones must be replaced, and the house must be plastered again. ⁴³ »If the mildew breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and plastered, ⁴⁴ the priest will go and look. If it has spread, the house is unclean. ⁴⁵ »It must be torn down, and its stones, its wood, and all its plaster must be carried out of the city to an unclean place. ⁴⁶ »Whoever goes into the house during the time that he has quarantined it, becomes unclean until evening. ⁴⁷ »Whoever lies down in the house must wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house must wash his clothes. ⁴⁸ »If the mildew has not reappeared after the house has been replastered, the priest will pronounce the house ritually clean. This is because the mildew has been completely removed. ⁴⁹ »He shall take two birds, some cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop to purify the house. ⁵⁰ »He should kill one of the birds over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water. ⁵¹ »Then he will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the red cord, and the live bird and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water. He will sprinkle the house seven times. ⁵² »This is the way he will purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red cord. ⁵³ »Then the priest will let the living bird fly from the city into the open country. He will pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the house. It will be clean.« ⁵⁴ These are the instructions for any kind of mildew or fungus ⁵⁵ that infects clothing or houses ⁵⁶ and for skin diseases where there is a sore, a rash, or an irritated area. ⁵⁷ These instructions for skin diseases and mildew help you distinguish between what is clean and unclean.

³ Four men who were suffering from a dreaded skin disease were outside the gates of Samaria. They said to each other: »Why should we wait here until we die?

⁸ »Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. You received without paying, now give without being paid.

¹⁴ When he saw them he told them to go show themselves to the priests. They were cleansed on the way.

⁴⁶ »You remain unclean as long as you have the disease. You must live outside the camp, away from others.

⁴⁵ »If you have a dreaded skin disease, you must wear torn clothes, leave your hair uncombed, cover the lower part of your face, and call out: Unclean, unclean! ⁴⁶ »You remain unclean as long as you have the disease. You must live outside the camp, away from others.

¹ Jehovah gave Moses and Aaron these regulations: ² »If any of you have a sore on your skin or a boil or an inflammation that could develop into a dreaded skin disease, you shall be brought to the priest. ³ »The priest will examine the sore. If the hairs in it have turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the surrounding skin, it is a dreaded skin disease, and the priest will pronounce you unclean. ⁴ »If the sore is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin around it and the hairs have not turned white, the priest will isolate you for seven days. ⁵ »The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If in his opinion the sore looks the same and has not spread, he will isolate you for another seven days. ⁶ »The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If the sore has faded and has not spread, he will pronounce you ritually clean. It is only a sore. You will wash your clothes and be ritually clean. ⁷ »If the sore spreads after the priest has examined you and pronounced you clean, you must return to the priest again. ⁸ »The priest will examine you again. If it has spread, he will pronounce you unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease. ⁹ »If any of you have a dreaded skin disease, you should be brought to the priest. ¹⁰ »He will examine you. If there is a white sore on your skin that turns the hairs white and is full of pus, ¹¹ it is a chronic skin disease. The priest will pronounce you unclean. There is no need to isolate you. You are obviously unclean. ¹² »If the skin disease spreads and covers you from head to foot, ¹³ the priest should examine you again. If he finds that it actually has covered the whole body, he will pronounce you ritually clean. If your whole skin has turned white you are ritually clean. ¹⁴ »The moment an open sore appears you are unclean. ¹⁵ »The priest will examine you again. If he sees an open sore, he will pronounce you unclean. An open sore means a dreaded skin disease. You are unclean. ¹⁶ »When the sore heals and becomes white again, you should go to the priest. ¹⁷ »He will examine you again. If the sore has turned white you are ritually clean. The priest will pronounce you clean. ¹⁸ »If you have a boil that has healed ¹⁹ and if afterward a white swelling or a reddish-white spot appears where the boil was, you should go to the priest. ²⁰ »The priest will examine you. If the spot seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it have turned white, he will pronounce you unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease that has started in the boil. ²¹ »If the priest examines it and finds that the hairs in it have not turned white and that it is not deeper than the surrounding skin, but is light in color, the priest will isolate you for seven days. ²² »If the spot spreads the priest shall pronounce you unclean. You are diseased. ²³ »If it remains unchanged and does not spread, it is only the scar left from the boil. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean. ²⁴ »In case any of you have been burned. If the raw flesh becomes white or reddish-white, ²⁵ the priest will examine it. If the hair on the affected area has turned white and the affected area looks deeper than the rest of the skin, an infectious skin disease has developed in the burn. The priest will pronounce you unclean. It is an infectious skin disease. ²⁶ »But if the priest examines it and the hair in it is not white and the affected area is not deeper than the rest of the skin but has faded, the priest must put you in isolation for seven days. ²⁷ »The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If it is spreading it is a dreaded skin disease. The priest will pronounce you unclean. ²⁸ »If the spot remains unchanged and does not spread and is light in color, it is not a dreaded skin disease. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean, because it is only a scar from the burn. ²⁹ »When any of you, male or female, have a sore on your head or chin, ³⁰ the priest will examine it. If it seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it are yellowish and thin, it is a dreaded skin disease. He will declare you unclean. ³¹ »If the priest examines you and finds the sore does not appear to be deeper than the surrounding skin, but there are still no healthy hairs in it, he will isolate you for seven days. ³² »The priest will examine the sore again on the seventh day. If it has not spread and there are no yellowish hairs in it and it does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin, ³³ you will shave the head accept the area around the sore. The priest will isolate you for another seven days. ³⁴ »The priest will again examine the sore on the seventh day. If it has not spread and does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin, he will declare you ritually clean. You will wash your clothes. You will be clean. ³⁵ »If the sore spreads after you have been pronounced clean, ³⁶ the priest will examine you again. If the sore has spread, he need not look for yellowish hairs. You are obviously unclean. ³⁷ »If in the priest's opinion the sore has not spread and healthy hairs are growing in it, the sore has healed. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean. ³⁸ »When you, male or female, have white spots on the skin, ³⁹ the priest shall examine you. If the spots are dull white, it is only a blemish that has broken out on the skin. You are ritually clean. ⁴⁰ »Loss of hair makes one bald not unclean. ⁴¹ »Hair losses from the forehead or the back of the head do not make one unclean. ⁴² »If a reddish-white sore appears on the bald spot, it is a dreaded skin disease. ⁴³ »The priest will examine you. If there is a reddish-white sore, ⁴⁴ the priest will declare you unclean. You have a dreaded skin disease on your head. ⁴⁵ »If you have a dreaded skin disease, you must wear torn clothes, leave your hair uncombed, cover the lower part of your face, and call out: Unclean, unclean! ⁴⁶ »You remain unclean as long as you have the disease. You must live outside the camp, away from others. ⁴⁷ »When there is mildew on clothing, whether wool or linen, ⁴⁸ or on any woven piece of linen or wool cloth or on leather or anything made of leather, ⁴⁹ if it is greenish or reddish, it is a spreading mildew and must be shown to the priest. ⁵⁰ »The priest shall examine it and put the object away for seven days. ⁵¹ »He will examine it again on the seventh day. If the mildew has spread, the object is unclean. ⁵² »The priest will burn it, because it is a spreading mildew. It must be destroyed by fire. ⁵³ »If the priest finds that the mildew has not spread on the object, ⁵⁴ he will order that it be washed and put away for another seven days. ⁵⁵ »He shall examine it again and if the mildew has not changed color, even though it has not spread, it is still unclean. You must burn the object, whether the rot is on the front or the back. ⁵⁶ »When the priest examines it again, the mildew has faded; he will tear it out of the clothing or leather. ⁵⁷ »Then if the mildew reappears, it is spreading again, and the owner must burn the object. ⁵⁸ »If he washes the object and the spot disappears, he should wash it again. It will be ritually clean.« ⁵⁹ This is the law about mildew on clothing. Whether it is wool or linen, or on linen or wool cloth or on anything made of leather; this is how the decision is made as to whether it is ritually clean or unclean.

¹ Jehovah gave Moses ² the following regulations about the ritual purification of those of you cured of a dreaded skin disease: »On the day you are to be pronounced clean, you should be brought to the priest. ³ »The priest will take you outside the camp and examine you. If the disease is healed, ⁴ the priest will order that two ritually clean birds be brought, along with a piece of cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop. ⁵ »The priest will order that one of the birds be killed over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water. ⁶ »He will take the other bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the red cord, and the hyssop, in the blood of the bird that was killed. ⁷ »He will sprinkle the blood seven times on the one of you who is to be purified from your skin disease. He will then pronounce you clean. He will let the live bird fly away over the open fields. ⁸ »You must wash your clothes, shave off all your hair, and take a bath. You will then be ritually clean. You may enter the camp. You must live outside your tent for seven days. ⁹ »On the seventh day you should again shave your head, your beard, your eyebrows, and all the rest of the hair on your body. You should wash your clothes and take a bath. Then you will be ritually clean. ¹⁰ »The eighth day bring two male lambs and one female lamb a year old that are without any defects. Also bring five pounds of flour mixed with olive oil, and half a pint of olive oil. ¹¹ »The priest will take you and these offerings to the entrance of the Tent of Jehovah’s presence. ¹² »Then the priest will take one of the male lambs and together with the half pint of oil he will offer it as a repayment offering. He will present them as a special gift to Jehovah for the priest. ¹³ »He will slaughter the lamb in the holy place where the animals for the sin offerings and the burnt offerings are slaughtered. He must do this because the repayment offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest and is very holy. ¹⁴ »The priest will take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. ¹⁵ »The priest will also take some of the olive oil and pour it into his own left hand. ¹⁶ »He will dip his right finger in the oil in his left hand, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times in Jehovah’s presence. ¹⁷ »The priest will put some of the oil that is still in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering. ¹⁸ »The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed. So he will pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for that person in Jehovah’s presence. ¹⁹ »The priest will also sacrifice the offering for sin to make peace with Jehovah for the one who is being cleansed from his impurity. After that, he will slaughter the burnt offering. ²⁰ »He will sacrifice the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for that person. The person who had the skin disease will be clean. ²¹ »If the one to be cleansed is poor and cannot afford that much, he must take one male lamb, present it to pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for himself, and use it for his guilt offering. He will take only eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, a quart of olive oil, ²² and two mourning doves or two pigeons, whatever he can afford. The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering. ²³ »The eighth day he will take them to the priest for his cleansing at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting in Jehovah’s presence. ²⁴ »The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the quart of olive oil and present them to Jehovah. ²⁵ »He will slaughter the lamb as a guilt offering. The priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. ²⁶ »The priest will pour some of the olive oil into his own left hand. ²⁷ »In Jehovah’s presence he will sprinkle some of the oil with his right finger seven times. ²⁸ »The priest will put some of the oil that is in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering. ²⁹ »In Jehovah’s presence, the priest will pour the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed in order to make a payment for him. ³⁰ »The one to be cleansed must take one of the mourning doves or pigeons, the one he can afford, ³¹ and sacrifice it as an offering for sin. He will take the other and sacrifice it as a burnt offering together with the grain offering. So in Jehovah’s presence the priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for the one who is being cleansed. ³² »These are the instructions for one who has an infectious skin disease but cannot afford what is needed for his cleansing.« ³³ Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron: ³⁴ »When you come to Canaan that I am going to give to you, mildew may appear in a house. ³⁵ »The owner of that house must come and tell the priest that there is something that looks like mildew in his house. ³⁶ »Before the priest examines the house, he will order everything taken out of it so that nothing in the house will become unclean. Then the priest will go inside to examine the house. ³⁷ »He will examine the mildew area on the walls. If it is green and red in sunken areas that are deeper than the rest of the wall, ³⁸ the priest will go out to the door of the house and close up the house for seven days. ³⁹ »The priest will go back and examine it again on the seventh day. If the mildew in the walls of the house has spread, ⁴⁰ he must order the stones that have the mildew to be torn out and thrown outside the city in an unclean place. ⁴¹ »He must have the entire inside of the house scraped. The plaster dust scraped off the walls must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city. ⁴² »The stones must be replaced, and the house must be plastered again. ⁴³ »If the mildew breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and plastered, ⁴⁴ the priest will go and look. If it has spread, the house is unclean. ⁴⁵ »It must be torn down, and its stones, its wood, and all its plaster must be carried out of the city to an unclean place. ⁴⁶ »Whoever goes into the house during the time that he has quarantined it, becomes unclean until evening. ⁴⁷ »Whoever lies down in the house must wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house must wash his clothes. ⁴⁸ »If the mildew has not reappeared after the house has been replastered, the priest will pronounce the house ritually clean. This is because the mildew has been completely removed. ⁴⁹ »He shall take two birds, some cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop to purify the house. ⁵⁰ »He should kill one of the birds over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water. ⁵¹ »Then he will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the red cord, and the live bird and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water. He will sprinkle the house seven times. ⁵² »This is the way he will purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red cord. ⁵³ »Then the priest will let the living bird fly from the city into the open country. He will pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the house. It will be clean.« ⁵⁴ These are the instructions for any kind of mildew or fungus ⁵⁵ that infects clothing or houses ⁵⁶ and for skin diseases where there is a sore, a rash, or an irritated area. ⁵⁷ These instructions for skin diseases and mildew help you distinguish between what is clean and unclean.

¹² Entering a village he met ten men suffering from a dreaded skin disease. ¹³ They shouted: »Jesus! Master! Have pity on us!« ¹⁴ When he saw them he told them to go show themselves to the priests. They were cleansed on the way.

⁴⁰ A man with leprosy knelt in front of Jesus and begged to be healed. »If you want to, you can make me well,« he said. ⁴¹ Moved with compassion Jesus touched him. »I want to,« he said. »Be healed!« ⁴² Instantly the leprosy disappeared and man was healed.