[[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Leviticus Overview]] [[Leviticus 13]] [[Leviticus 15]] # Leviticus 14 📖 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Purification of Diseased Skin Infections [[#Verse 01.]] The Lord spoke to Moses:  [[#Verse 02.]] “This is the law of the diseased person on the day of his purification, when he is brought to the priest. [[#Verse 03.]] The priest is to go outside the camp and examine the infection. If the infection of the diseased person has been healed,  [[#Verse 04.]] then the priest will command that two live clean birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop be taken up for the one being cleansed.  [[#Verse 05.]] The priest will then command that one bird be slaughtered into a clay vessel over fresh water.  [[#Verse 06.]] Then he is to take the live bird along with the piece of cedar wood, the scrap of crimson fabric, and the twigs of hyssop, and he is to dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird slaughtered over the fresh water, [[#Verse 07.]] and sprinkle it seven times on the one being cleansed from the disease, pronounce him clean, and send the live bird away over the open countryside. ### The Seven Days of Purification [[#Verse 08.]] “The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.  [[#Verse 09.]] When the seventh day comes he must shave all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, all his hair—and he must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and so be clean. ### The Eighth-Day Atonement Rituals [[#Verse 10.]] “On the eighth day he must take two flawless male lambs, one flawless yearling female lamb, three-tenths of an ephah of choice wheat flour as a grain offering mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil,  [[#Verse 11.]] and the priest who pronounces him clean will have the man who is being cleansed stand along with these offerings before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent. [[#Verse 12.]] “The priest is to take one male lamb and present it for a guilt offering along with the log of olive oil and present them as a wave offering before the Lord.  [[#Verse 13.]] He must then slaughter the male lamb in the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered, in the sanctuary, because, like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.  [[#Verse 14.]] Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.  [[#Verse 15.]] The priest will then take some of the log of olive oil and pour it into his own left hand.  [[#Verse 16.]] Then the priest is to dip his right forefinger into the olive oil that is in his left hand, and sprinkle some of the olive oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.  [[#Verse 17.]] The priest will then put some of the rest of the olive oil that is in his hand on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering,  [[#Verse 18.]] and the remainder of the olive oil that is in his hand the priest is to put on the head of the one being cleansed. So the priest is to make atonement for him before the Lord. [[#Verse 19.]] “The priest must then perform the sin offering and make atonement for the one being cleansed from his impurity. After that he is to slaughter the burnt offering,  [[#Verse 20.]] and the priest is to offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest is to make atonement for him and he will be clean. ### The Eighth-Day Atonement Rituals for the Poor Person [[#Verse 21.]] “If the person is poor and does not have sufficient means, he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make atonement for himself, one-tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,  [[#Verse 22.]] and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, which are within his means. One will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. [[#Verse 23 “On the eighth day he must bring them for his purification to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent before the Lord,  [[#Verse 24.]] and the priest is to take the male lamb of the guilt offering and the log of olive oil and wave them as a wave offering before the Lord.  [[#Verse 25.]] Then he is to slaughter the male lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.  [[#Verse 26.]] The priest will then pour some of the olive oil into his own left hand,  [[#Verse 27.]] and sprinkle some of the olive oil that is in his left hand with his right forefinger seven times before the Lord.  [[#Verse 28.]] Then the priest is to put some of the olive oil that is in his hand on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering,  [[#Verse 29.]] and the remainder of the olive oil that is in the hand of the priest he is to put on the head of the one being cleansed to make atonement for him before the Lord. [[#Verse 30.]] “He will then make one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, which are within his means,  [[#Verse 31.]] a sin offering and the other a burnt offering along with the grain offering. So the priest is to make atonement for the one being cleansed before the Lord.  [[#Verse 32.]] This is the law of the one in whom there is a diseased infection, who does not have sufficient means for his purification.” ### Purification of Disease-Infected Houses [[#Verse 33.]] The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:  [[#Verse 34.]] “When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give to you for a possession, and I put a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess,  [[#Verse 35.]] then whoever owns the house must come and declare to the priest, ‘Something like an infection is visible to me in the house.’  [[#Verse 36]] Then the priest will command that the house be cleared before the priest enters to examine the infection so that everything in the house does not become unclean, and afterward the priest will enter to examine the house.  [[#Verse 37]] He is to examine the infection, and if the infection in the walls of the house consists of yellowish green or reddish eruptions, and it appears to be deeper than the surface of the wall,  [[#Verse 38]] then the priest is to go out of the house to the doorway of the house and quarantine the house for seven days.  [[#Verse 39]] The priest must return on the seventh day and examine it, and if the infection has spread in the walls of the house,  [[#Verse 40]] then the priest is to command that the stones that had the infection in them be pulled and thrown outside the city into an unclean place.  [[#Verse 41]] Then they shall scrape the house all around on the inside, and the plaster which they have scraped off must be dumped outside the city into an unclean place.  [[#Verse 42]] They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house. [[#Verse 43]] “If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered,  [[#Verse 44]] the priest is to come and examine it, and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant disease in the house. It is unclean.  [[#Verse 45]] He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place. [[#Verse 46]] Anyone who enters the house all the days the priest has quarantined it will be unclean until evening.  [[#Verse 47]] Anyone who lies down in the house must wash his clothes. Anyone who eats in the house must wash his clothes. [[#Verse 48]] “If, however, the priest enters and examines it, and the infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.  [[#Verse 49]] Then he is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop to purify the house,  [[#Verse 50]] and he is to slaughter one bird into a clay vessel over fresh water.  [[#Verse 51]] He must then take the piece of cedar wood, the twigs of hyssop, the scrap of crimson fabric, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.  [[#Verse 52]] So he is to purify the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the piece of cedar wood, the twigs of hyssop, and the scrap of crimson fabric,  [[#Verse 53]] and he is to send the live bird away outside the city into the open countryside. So he is to make atonement for the house and it will be clean. ### Summary of Purification Regulations for Infections [[#Verse 54]] “This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall,  [[#Verse 55]] for the diseased garment, for the house,  [[#Verse 56]] for the swelling, for the scab, and for the bright spot,  [[#Verse 57]] to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for dealing with infectious disease.” ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38 ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ###### Verse 44. ###### Verse 45. ###### Verse 46. ###### Verse 47. ###### Verse 48. ###### Verse 49. ###### Verse 50. ###### Verse 51. ###### Verse 52. ###### Verse 53. ###### Verse 54. ###### Verse 55. ###### Verse 56. ###### Verse 57. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? 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