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left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil
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And of the rest of the oil in his hand, the
priest shall put some on the tip of the right ear
of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of
Leviticus 14:1–57
his right hand, and on the big toe of his right
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, foot, on the blood of the trespass offering.
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14 “This shall be the law of the leper for the 18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand
day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to he shall put on the head of him who is to be
the priest. And the priest shall go out of the cleansed. So the priest shall make atonement
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camp, and the priest shall examine him; and for him before the LORD.
indeed, if the leprosy is healed in the leper,
4 then the priest shall command to take for him
who is to be cleansed two living and clean
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birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. And
the priest shall command that one of the birds 14:18 put on the head. This would not have
be killed in an earthen vessel over running been understood as an anointing for entry
water. As for the living bird, he shall take it, into an office,but rather as a symbolic gesture
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the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hys- of cleansing and healing. There could be a
sop, and dip them and the living bird in the connection with the New Testament directive
blood of the bird that was killed over the run- to anoint the sick for healing (Mark 6:13;16:18;
ning water. And he shall sprinkle it seven James 5:14).
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times on him who is to be cleansed from the
leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and
shall let the living bird loose in the open field. 19 “Then the priest shall offer the sin offer-
8 He who is to be cleansed shall wash his ing, and make atonement for him who is to be
clothes, shave off all his hair, and wash himself cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward he
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in water, that he may be clean. After that he shall kill the burnt offering. And the priest
shall come into the camp, and shall stay out- shall offer the burnt offering and the grain
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side his tent seven days. But on the seventh offering on the altar. So the priest shall make
day he shall shave all the hair off his head and atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
his beard and his eyebrows—all his hair he 21 “But if he is poor and cannot afford it, then
shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes and he shall take one male lamb as a trespass
wash his body in water, and he shall be clean. offering to be waved, to make atonement for
10 “And on the eighth day he shall take two him, one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed
male lambs without blemish, one ewe lamb of with oil as a grain offering, a log of oil, and
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the first year without blemish, three-tenths of two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as
an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain he is able to afford: one shall be a sin offering
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offering, and one log of oil. Then the priest and the other a burnt offering. He shall bring
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who makes him clean shall present the man them to the priest on the eighth day for his
who is to be made clean, and those things, cleansing, to the door of the tabernacle of
before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle meeting, before the LORD. And the priest
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of meeting. And the priest shall take one shall take the lamb of the trespass offering
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male lamb and offer it as a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave
and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.
offering before the LORD. Then he shall kill 25 Then he shall kill the lamb of the trespass
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the lamb in the place where he kills the sin offering, and the priest shall take some of the
offering and the burnt offering, in a holy blood of the trespass offering and put it on the
place; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so tip of the right ear of him who is to be
is the trespass offering. It is most holy. The cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and
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priest shall take some of the blood of the tres- on the big toe of his right foot. And the priest
pass offering, and the priest shall put it on the shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his
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tip of the right ear of him who is to be own left hand. Then the priest shall sprinkle
cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and with his right finger some of the oil that is in
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on the big toe of his right foot. And the priest his left hand seven times before the LORD.
shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into 28 And the priest shall put some of the oil that is
the palm of his own left hand. Then the priest in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him
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shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of the
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