Cleansing from Skin Diseases
(Matthew 8:1–4; Mark 1:40–45; Luke 5:12–16)
Then the LORD said to Moses, “This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease 1on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest. Luk 17:14Luk 5:12-14Mrk 1:40-44Num 6:9Lev 13:59Lev 14:54-57Mat 8:2-4 The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed, Lev 13:461Co 6:9-112Ki 5:142Ki 5:32Ki 5:7-8Exo 15:26Job 5:18Luk 17:15-19 the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed. Num 19:6Heb 9:19Lev 14:6Exo 12:22Psa 51:7Lev 1:14Lev 12:8Lev 14:49-52
Then the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water 2in a clay pot. Heb 2:14Lev 14:502Co 13:42Co 4:72Co 5:1Num 5:17 And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water. Heb 1:3Jhn 14:19Lev 14:4Lev 14:51-53Php 2:9-11Rev 1:18Rev 1:5Rom 4:25 Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the skin disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and release the live bird into the open field. 2Ki 5:102Ki 5:14Ezk 36:25Isa 52:151Pe 1:2Heb 9:13Heb 9:191Jn 5:6
The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days. Lev 11:251Pe 3:21Num 8:72Ch 26:21Exo 19:10Exo 19:14Lev 13:5-6Lev 14:20 On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean. Num 6:9Lev 14:8Num 8:7
On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour 3mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil. 4 Lev 2:1Lev 14:12Lev 14:15Lev 14:21Luk 5:14Mat 8:4Mrk 1:441Pe 1:19 The priest who performs the cleansing shall present the one to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Eph 5:26-27Exo 29:1-4Jud 1:24Lev 8:3Num 8:21Num 8:6-11
Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil; and he must wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. Exo 29:24Lev 6:6-7Isa 53:10Lev 5:18-19Lev 5:2-3Lev 5:6-7Lev 8:27-29 Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy. Exo 29:11Lev 1:11Lev 4:24Lev 2:3Lev 4:4Lev 7:6-7Lev 1:5Lev 10:17
The priest is to take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. Exo 29:20Lev 8:23-242Co 7:11Co 6:20Isa 1:5Php 1:20Rom 12:1Rom 6:13 Then the priest shall take some of the log of olive oil, pour it into his left palm, 1Jn 2:20Jhn 3:34Psa 45:7 dip his right forefinger into the oil in his left palm, and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD. 1Co 10:31Lev 4:17Lev 4:6Luk 17:18 And the priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering. 1Pe 1:2Exo 29:20-21Ezk 36:27Jhn 1:16Lev 14:14Lev 8:30Tit 3:3-6
The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD. Lev 4:262Co 1:21-22Eph 1:17-18Exo 29:7Lev 4:31Lev 5:16Lev 8:12 Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering Lev 14:122Co 5:21Lev 12:6-8Lev 5:1Lev 5:6Rom 8:3 and offer it on the altar, with the grain offering, to make atonement for him, and he will be clean. Lev 14:10Eph 5:2Lev 14:8
If, however, the person is poor and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour 5mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil, Lev 5:7Lev 12:8Pro 17:51Sa 2:82Co 8:122Co 8:9Jas 2:5-6Job 34:19 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. Ezk 7:16Isa 38:14Isa 59:11Jer 48:28Lev 5:7Psa 68:13Sng 2:14
On the eighth day he is to bring them for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD. Lev 14:10-11 The priest shall take the lamb for the guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. Lev 14:10Lev 14:12
And after he slaughters the lamb for the guilt offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. Ecc 5:1Lev 14:14-20Psa 40:6 Then the priest is to pour some of the oil into his left palm and sprinkle with his right forefinger some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the LORD. The priest shall also put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot—on the same places as the blood of the guilt offering.
The rest of the oil in his palm, the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD. Lev 14:181Jn 2:1-21Jn 5:6Exo 30:15-16Jhn 17:19Lev 14:20 Then he must sacrifice the turtledoves or young pigeons, whichever he can afford, Lev 14:22Lev 12:8Lev 15:14-15Luk 2:24Rom 8:3 one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, 6 together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed. Lev 14:18Lev 5:7
This is the law for someone who has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.” Lev 14:10Lev 14:211Co 1:27-28Lev 13:59Lev 14:2Lev 14:54-57Mat 11:5Psa 136:23
Signs of Home Contamination
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew 7into a house in that land, Deu 32:49Gen 17:81Sa 2:6Amo 3:6Deu 12:1Deu 12:8-10Deu 7:1-2Deu 7:15 the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘Something like mildew has appeared in my house.’ Psa 91:10Deu 7:26Zec 5:41Ki 13:341Sa 3:12-14Jos 7:21Pro 3:33
The priest must order that the house be cleared before he enters it to examine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will become unclean. After this, the priest shall go in to inspect the house. 1Co 15:332Ti 2:17-18Heb 12:15Rev 18:4
He is to examine the house, and if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall, Lev 13:19-20Lev 13:3Lev 13:42Lev 13:49 the priest shall go outside the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days. Lev 13:50
On the seventh day the priest is to return and inspect the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls, Lev 13:22Lev 13:27Lev 13:36Lev 13:51Lev 13:7-8 he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city. 1Co 5:131Co 5:5-62Jn 1:10-11Isa 1:25-26Jhn 15:2Mat 18:17Pro 22:10Pro 25:4-5 And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city. 1Ti 1:20Isa 65:4Job 36:13-14Mat 24:51Mat 8:28Rev 22:15
So different stones must be obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional mortar to replaster the house. 1Ti 5:21-221Ti 5:9-102Ch 17:7-92Ch 19:5-72Ch 29:4-52Ti 2:2Act 1:20-26Gen 18:19
If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house has been scraped and replastered, 2Pe 2:202Pe 2:22Ezk 24:13Heb 6:4-8Jer 6:28-30Jud 1:12 the priest must come and inspect it. Lev 13:51-52Zec 5:4
If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean. It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place. 1Ki 9:6-92Ki 10:272Ki 17:20-232Ki 18:42Ki 25:25-262Ki 25:4-12Ezk 5:4Jer 52:13 Anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until evening. Num 19:21-22Lev 11:24-25Lev 11:28Lev 15:10Lev 15:5-8Lev 17:15Lev 22:6Num 19:7-10 And anyone who sleeps in the house or eats in it must wash his clothes. Lev 11:25Lev 14:8-9
Cleansing a Home
If, however, the priest comes and inspects it, and the mildew has not spread after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the mildew is gone. 1Co 6:11Hos 6:1Job 5:18Lev 14:3Luk 7:21Mrk 5:29Mrk 5:34
He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house; Lev 14:4 and he shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.
Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times. Psa 51:7 And he shall cleanse the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.
Finally, he is to release the live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean. Lev 14:20Lev 14:7
This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak, Lev 14:32Lev 15:32Num 5:29Deu 24:8Lev 11:46Lev 13:30-31Lev 14:2Lev 6:14 for mildew in clothing or in a house, Lev 13:47-59 and for a swelling, rash, or spot, Lev 13:2 to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew. 8” Lev 10:10Ezk 44:23Jer 15:19Deu 24:8