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132 Book of Leviticus

46 You shall be holy, because I am holy. This tles, or two young pigeons, one for a holocaust,
is the law of beasts and fowls, and of every living and another for sin: and the priest shall pray for
creature that moveth in the waters, and creepeth her, and so she shall be cleansed.
on the earth:
47 That you may know the differences of the
clean, and unclean, and know what you ought to Chapter 13
eat, and what to refuse.
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
2 The man in whose skin or flesh shall arise a
Chapter 12 different colour or a blister, or as it were some-
thing shining, that is the stroke of the leprosy,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or any or
2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou of his sons.
shalt say to them: If a woman having received 3 And if he see the leprosy in his skin, and
seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean the hair turned white and the place where the
seven days, according to the days of separation leprosy appears lower than the skin and the rest
of her flowers. of the flesh: it is the stroke of the leprosy, and
3 And on the eighth day the infant shall be upon his judgment he shall be separated.
circumcised: 4 But if there be a shining whiteness in the
4 But she shall remain three and thirty days skin, and not lower than the other flesh, and the
in the blood of her purification. She shall touch hair be of the former colour, the priest shall shut
no holy thing: neither shall she enter into the him up seven days.
sanctuary, until the days of her purification, be 5 And the seventh day he shall look on him:
fulfilled. and if the leprosy be grown no farther, and hath
5 But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall not spread itself in the skin, he shall shut him
be unclean two weeks, according to the custom up again other seven days.
of her monthly courses. And she shall remain in 6 And on the seventh day, he shall look on
the blood of her purification sixty-six days. him. If the leprosy be somewhat obscure, and
6 And when the days of her purification are not spread in the skin, he shall declare him clean,
expired, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall because it is but a scab: and the man shall wash
bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testi- his clothes, and shall be clean.
mony, a lamb of a year old for a holocaust, and a 7 But, if the leprosy grow again, after he was
young pigeon or a turtle for sin: and shall deliver seen by the priest and restored to cleanness, he
them to the priest. shall be brought to him:
7 Who shall offer them before the Lord, and 8 And shall be condemned of uncleanness.
shall pray for her: and so she shall be cleansed 9 If the stroke of the leprosy be in a man, he
from the issue of her blood. This is the law for shall be brought to the priest:
her that beareth a man child or a maid child. 10 And he shall view him. And when there
8 And if her hand find not sufficiency, and she shall be a white colour in the skin, and it shall
is not able to offer a lamb, she shall take two tur- have changed the look of the hair, and the living