Leviticus 14 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Law of Cleansing a Leper

(cf. Mat 8:1–4; Luk 5:12–14 )

Lev 14:1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Lev 14:2This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest,

Lev 14:3and the priest shall go out of the camp; and when the priest looketh, and behold, the sore of leprosy is healed in the leper,

Lev 14:4

Lev 14:4then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two clean living birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

Lev 14:5

Lev 14:5And the priest shall command that one bird be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

Lev 14:6

Lev 14:6as to the living bird -- he shall take it, and the cedar-wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water;

Lev 14:7

Lev 14:7and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.

Lev 14:8

Lev 14:8And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his garments, and shave all his hair, and bathe in water, and he shall be clean; and afterwards shall he come into the camp, and shall abide outside his tent seven days.

Lev 14:9

Lev 14:9And it shall come to pass on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair, his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows, even all his hair shall he shave, and he shall wash his garments, and shall bathe his flesh in water, and he is clean.

Lev 14:10

Lev 14:10And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one yearling ewe-lamb without blemish, and three tenth parts of fine flour mingled with oil, for an oblation, and one log of oil.

Lev 14:11

Lev 14:11And the priest that cleanseth him shall present the man that is to be cleansed and those things before Jehovah, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Lev 14:12

Lev 14:12And the priest shall take one he-lamb, and present it for a trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave-offering before Jehovah.

Lev 14:13

Lev 14:13And he shall slaughter the he-lamb at the place where the sin-offering and the burnt-offering are slaughtered, in a holy place; for as the sin-offering, so the trespass-offering is the priest's: it is most holy.

Lev 14:14

Lev 14:14And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

Lev 14:15

Lev 14:15And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into his, the priest's, left hand;

Lev 14:16

Lev 14:16and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah.

Lev 14:17

Lev 14:17And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering.

Lev 14:18

Lev 14:18And the remainder of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah.

Lev 14:19

Lev 14:19And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterwards shall he slaughter the burnt-offering.

Lev 14:20

Lev 14:20And the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the oblation upon the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

Lev 14:21

Lev 14:21But if he be poor, and his hand be not able to get it, then he shall take one lamb for a trespass-offering, for a wave-offering, to make atonement for him; and one tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for an oblation; and a log of oil,

Lev 14:22

Lev 14:22and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, as his hand may be able to get: the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering.

Lev 14:23

Lev 14:23And he shall bring them on the eighth day of his cleansing unto the priest, unto the entrance of the tent of meeting, before Jehovah.

Lev 14:24

Lev 14:24And the priest shall take the he-lamb of the trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave-offering before Jehovah.

Lev 14:25

Lev 14:25And he shall slaughter the he-lamb of the trespass-offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

Lev 14:26

Lev 14:26And the priest shall pour of the oil into his, the priest's, left hand,

Lev 14:27

Lev 14:27and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Jehovah.

Lev 14:28

Lev 14:28And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass-offering.

Lev 14:29

Lev 14:29And the remainder of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Jehovah.

Lev 14:30

Lev 14:30And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, of what his hand was able to get;

Lev 14:31

Lev 14:31of what his hand was able to get shall the one be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering, with the oblation; and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before Jehovah.

Lev 14:32

Lev 14:32This is the law for him in whom is the sore of leprosy, whose hand cannot get what is regularly prescribed in his cleansing.

Cleansing a Leprous House

Lev 14:33

Lev 14:33And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Lev 14:34

Lev 14:34When ye come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a leprous plague in a house of the land of your possession,

Lev 14:35

Lev 14:35then he whose house it is shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me like a plague in the house;

Lev 14:36

Lev 14:36and the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean; and afterwards the priest shall go in to see the house.

Lev 14:37

Lev 14:37And when he looketh on the plague, and behold, the plague is in the walls of the house, greenish or reddish hollows, and their look is deeper than the surface of the wall,

Lev 14:38

Lev 14:38then the priest shall go out of the house to the entrance of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

Lev 14:39

Lev 14:39And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and when he looketh, and behold, the plague hath spread in the walls of the house,

Lev 14:40

Lev 14:40then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them out of the city, in an unclean place.

Lev 14:41

Lev 14:41And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar that they have scraped off, out of the city in an unclean place.

Lev 14:42

Lev 14:42And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and they shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

Lev 14:43

Lev 14:43And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered,

Lev 14:44

Lev 14:44then the priest shall come, and when he looketh, and behold, the plague hath spread in the house, it is a corroding leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

Lev 14:45

Lev 14:45And they shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house, and shall carry them forth out of the city to an unclean place.

Lev 14:46

Lev 14:46And he that goeth into the house as long as it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.

Lev 14:47

Lev 14:47And he that sleepeth in the house shall wash his garments, and he that eateth in the house shall wash his garments.

Lev 14:48

Lev 14:48But if the priest shall come in and look, and behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house hath been plastered, the priest shall pronounce the house clean; for the plague is healed.

Lev 14:49

Lev 14:49And he shall take, to purge the house from the defilement, two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop;

Lev 14:50

Lev 14:50and he shall kill one bird in an earthen vessel over running water;

Lev 14:51

Lev 14:51and he shall take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times;

Lev 14:52

Lev 14:52and he shall purge the house from the defilement with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar-wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;

Lev 14:53

Lev 14:53and he shall let the living bird loose out of the city into the open field; and he shall make atonement for the house, and it is clean.

Lev 14:54

Lev 14:54This is the law for every sore of leprosy, and for the scall,

Lev 14:55

Lev 14:55and for the leprosy of garments, and of houses,

Lev 14:56

Lev 14:56and for the rising, and for the scab, and for the bright spot,

Lev 14:57

Lev 14:57to teach when there is uncleanness, and when it is purified: this is the law of leprosy.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Leviticus 14 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Law of Cleansing a Leper

Cleansing a Leprous House

Pericope