55 And the priest shall examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the appearance of the diseased area has not changed, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire, whether the rot is on the back or on the front.

56 “But if the priest examines, and if the diseased area has faded after it has been washed, he shall tear it out of the garment or the skin or the warp or the woof. 57 Then if it appears again in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire whatever has the disease. 58 But the garment, or the warp or the woof, or any article made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean.”

59 This is the law for a case of leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, to determine whether it is clean or unclean.

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. ^sHe shall be brought to the priest, 3 and the priest shall go ^tout of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person, 4 the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live¹ clean birds and ^ucedarwood and ^vscarlet yarn and ^whyssop. 5 And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh² water. 6 He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. 7 And he shall ^xsprinkle it ^yseven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall ^zlet the living bird go ^ainto the open field. 8 And he who is to be cleansed ^bshall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but ^clive outside his tent seven days. 9 And ^don the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he ^bshall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

10 “And on the eighth day he ^eshall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a ^fgrain offering of three tenths of an ephah³ of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log⁴ of oil. 11 And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 12 And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and ^goffer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and ^hwave them for a wave offering before the Lord. 13 And he shall kill the lamb ⁱin the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For ^jthe guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; ^kit is most holy. 14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it ^lon the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 15 Then the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand 16 and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. 17 And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and 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. 18 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. ^mThen the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. 19 The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. 20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the ^fgrain offering on the altar. ^mThus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.