Leviticus 14 - EasyEnglish Bible 2024（EASY）

Chapter 14Rules about a person who has become well again

1The Lord said to Moses,

2‘These rules are for a person who has had a bad disease in his skin. When the disease has finished, you must bring him to the priest to make him clean.

3The priest must go outside the camp and he must look carefully at the person's skin. If the disease has gone away,

4this is what the priest must do. He must tell someone to bring two birds that are alive. They must be birds that are good for food. They must also bring a piece of wood from a cedar tree, some red wool and a branch of hyssop. The priest will use these to make the person clean.

5The priest will command someone to kill one of the birds. He must do that over a clay pot that has fresh water in it. The blood of the dead bird will mix with the water.

6The priest will take the living bird, the piece of cedar wood, the red wool and the hyssop. He will make them wet with the blood of the dead bird.

7Then the priest will shake the blood over the person who had the disease. He will do this seven times. The priest will then say that the person is clean. He will let the living bird go so that it flies away.

8The person who has become well from the disease must wash his clothes. He must cut off all his hair and wash his body with water. Then he will be clean. After that, he can go into the camp. But he must stay outside his tent for seven days.

9On the seventh day, he must completely cut off all his hair. That includes all the hair of his head and his face. He must wash his clothes. He must wash his body with water. Then he will be clean.

10On the eighth day, the person must bring two male lambs and one female lamb that is one year old. Both the animals must be perfect. He must also bring three tenths of an ephah of the best flour that is mixed with olive oil as a grain offering. And he must bring a cup of olive oil.

11He must take these to the priest who is making him clean. The priest must tell the person to stand at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. He must bring his offerings to the Lord there.

12The priest must take one of the male lambs and the cup of olive oil. He must lift them up to the Lord as a special gift.

13He must kill the male lamb in the holy place where they kill the animals for sin offerings and burnt offerings. The guilt offering belongs to the priest, as the sin offering does. It is a very holy offering.

14The priest must put some of the blood from the guilt offering on the lowest part of the person's right ear. He must put some blood on the thumb of the person's right hand. And he must put some blood on the big toe of the person's right foot.

15The priest must pour some of the olive oil from the cup into his own left hand.

16He must put one finger of his right hand into the oil that is in his left hand. He must shake the oil seven times in front of the Lord.

17The priest must then take the oil that remains in his left hand. He must put some of it on the lowest part of the person's right ear. He must put some of the oil on the thumb of the person's right hand. And he must put some of it on the big toe of the person's right foot. He will put the oil on top of the blood from the offering.

18The priest must take the oil that still remains in his left hand. He must put it on the person's head. In this way the priest will make the person clean from his disease in front of the Lord.

19Then the priest must kill the animal for the sin offering. This makes the person who had the disease clean from his sins. After that, the priest will kill the animal for the burnt offering.

20He will offer this as a sacrifice on the altar, together with the grain offering. The priest will do all these things to make the person who had the disease completely clean.

21If the person is too poor to bring all these offerings, he may bring these things instead. He must bring one male lamb as a guilt offering to lift up in front of the Lord. That will be an offering to make him clean from his disease. He must also bring a tenth of an ephah of the best flour that is mixed with olive oil as a grain offering. And he must bring a cup of olive oil.

22The person must also bring two birds that he has enough money to buy. They must be doves or pigeons. One bird will be for a sin offering and the other one will be for a burnt offering.

23On the eighth day, the person must bring his offerings to the Lord. He must bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting to make himself clean.

24The priest will take the male lamb and the cup of oil. He will lift them up as a special gift to the Lord.

25Then he will kill the lamb which is the guilt offering. He will put some of its blood on the lowest part of the person's right ear. He will put some of the blood on the thumb of the person's right hand. And he will put some of it on the big toe of the person's right foot.

26The priest will pour some of the oil into his own left hand.

27He will put one finger of his right hand into the oil. He will shake the oil seven times in front of the Lord.

28He will put some oil from his hand on the lowest part of the person's right ear. He will also put some oil on the thumb of the person's right hand. And he will put some oil on the big toe of the person's right foot. He will put the oil on the same places that he put the blood from the guilt offering.

29The priest must take the oil that still remains in his left hand. He must put it on the person's head. In that way the priest will make the person clean from his disease in front of the Lord.

30Then the priest will offer the pigeons or the doves that the person has been able to buy.

31One bird will be for a sin offering. The other will be for a burnt offering. The priest will offer these together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make the person clean in front of the Lord.

32These are the rules for a poor person who had a bad disease in his skin. These are the offerings he must bring to make himself clean if he is too poor to bring all the usual offerings.’

Rules about a house that has mould on its walls

33The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

34‘One day you will go into Canaan, the land that I am giving to you as your home. When you are living there, I may cause mould to come in one of your houses.

35If a person finds mould in his house, he must tell the priest. He must say, “I can see something like a bad mould in my house.”

36The priest will tell the person to take everything out of the house. If the person does not do that, all the things in the house will become unclean. He must do it before the priest goes to look at the house.

37The priest will look carefully at the walls of the house. He will see if the mould has green or red marks in it. He will see if the mould goes deep into the wall.

38If the priest sees those things, he will go outside the house. He will lock it to stay shut for seven days.

39On the seventh day, the priest will return to the house. He will look carefully at the mould again. It may have grown bigger across the walls of the house.

40If that has happened, the priest must say, “You must remove the stones that have mould on them. You must take them outside the town. You must put them in a special place for unclean things.”

41The person must then remove the clay that covers all the inside walls of the house. He must put the clay outside the town in a place for unclean things.

42The person who lives in the house must get some other stones and some more clay. He will use those instead of the unclean stones and clay that he removed.

43After he has done all those things, the person might see that the mould has come back again.

44The priest will come to the house and look carefully at the mould. If the mould has grown again across the walls, this shows that it is a dangerous mould. The house is unclean.

45The person must completely knock down his house. He must remove all the stones, the pieces of wood and the clay. He must put them all outside the town in a place for unclean things.

46A person might go into the house during the time that the priest has shut it because of the mould. That person will become unclean until evening.

47Anyone who sleeps in the house must wash their clothes. And anyone who eats in the house must also wash their clothes.

48After the person has mended his house, the priest may see that the mould has not grown again. The priest will then say that the house is clean.

49He must take two birds, a piece of wood from a cedar tree, some red wool and a branch of hyssop. He will use these to make the house clean.

50He will kill one of the birds over a clay pot that has fresh water in it. The blood of the dead bird will mix with the water.

51The priest will then take the piece of cedar wood, the hyssop, the red wool and the other bird that is still alive. He will make them wet with the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water. He will shake the blood and water over the house seven times.

52In this way, the priest will make the house clean. He will use the blood of the dead bird, the fresh water, the living bird, the piece of cedar wood, the hyssop and the red wool.

53Then the priest will take the living bird outside the town. He will let the bird fly away over the fields. In this way he will make the house clean from the mould.’

54These are the rules for all kinds of bad disease.

55They include rules for mould that grows on cloth or on the walls of a house.

56They include rules for sores and boils and marks on someone's skin.

57They show if a person has a dangerous disease in their skin. They show whether the person is clean or he is unclean.