Leviticus 14 describes the cleansing process of those healed from leprosy and what to do about mold infecting a home. Reading through Leviticus is not exciting and there is nothing glamorous about it. Studies suggest that only 10 to 30% of Christians have read the entire Bible and that only 11% of Americans read the Bible every day. But here you are, hanging in there. And hey, if you want to just listen for a few minutes each day, I will read it to you.

Leviticus 14

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

2 “This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest:

3 who will go outside the camp and examine him, and if the disease is healed in the leper;

4 Then shall the priest command to take for his cleansing two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

5 The priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

7 And he shall sprinkle on him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.

8 He that is cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, but he must remain outside of his tent seven days.

9 On the seventh day, he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows: and he shall wash his clothes and his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

10 On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mingled with oil, and one third quart of oil, 

11 And the priest that makes him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tent of meeting:

12 The priest shall take one male lamb, and offer it for a trespass offering, and the oil, and present them for a wave offering before the LORD:

13 And he shall slaughter the lamb in the place where he kills the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the Holy Place: for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:

14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot:

15 And the priest shall take some of the oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:

16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:

17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:

18 The remnant of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall pour on the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.

19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:

20 The priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar: and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

21 And if he is poor, and cannot afford so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering, and three tenths of a quart of oil;

22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting, before the LORD.

24 The priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the oil, and present them for a wave offering before the LORD:

25 He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot:

26 And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:

27 And sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:

28 And put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering:

29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.

30 He shall offer one of the turtledoves, or one of the young pigeons, whichever he can afford, 

31 such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the grain offering: and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.

32 This is the law of him with leprosy, who cannot afford the offering for his cleansing.”

33 The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:

34 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house in the land of your possession;

35 He that owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying ‘It seems to me there is a plague in the house’

36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house is not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.

37 He shall examine the plague, and if it be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which appear lower than the wall;

38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:

39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and look: and if the plague has spread in the walls of the house;

40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city.

41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside all around, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off outside the city in an unclean place:

42 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar and plaster the house.

43 And if the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after they have taken away the stones, and after he has scraped the house and it is replastered;

44 Then the priest shall examine, and  if the plague has spread in the house, it is harmful mildew in the house; it is unclean.

45 He shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them outside of the city to an unclean place.

46 Anyone that goes into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until evening.

47 He that lies in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

48 And if the priest comes in, and examines it, if the plague has not spread in the house, after the house was plastered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

49 He shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:

51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

52 He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:

53 But he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open fields, and make atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.

54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,

55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,

56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:

57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.”

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