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1Reading 1 Leviticus 14:1–12Chapter page with footnotes →

Cleansing from Skin Diseases

^14:1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ²This shall be the Torah of the leper in the day of his cleansing: and he shall be brought to the priest. ³And the priest shall go out to outside the camp; and the priest shall look, and behold, the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper, ⁴then the priest shall command, and he shall take for the one being cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet of worm, and hyssop.

⁵And the priest shall command, and he shall slaughter the one bird into an earthen vessel over living water. ⁶As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet of worm, and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the slaughtered bird over the living water. ⁷And he shall sprinkle upon the one being cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and he shall pronounce him clean, and he shall send away the living bird upon the face of the field.

⁸And the one being cleansed shall wash his garments, and shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and he shall be clean; and afterward he shall come into the camp, and he shall dwell outside his tent seven days. ⁹And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair: his head and his beard and the eyebrows of his eyes, even all his hair he shall shave; and he shall wash his garments, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

¹⁰And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe-lamb a daughter of her year without blemish, and three tenth-parts of fine flour for a grain offering mingled with oil, and one log of oil. ¹¹And the priest who cleanses shall present the man who is being cleansed, and them, before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of appointed time (mo-ed).

¹²And the priest shall take the one lamb, and bring it near for a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and he shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

2Reading 2 Leviticus 14:13–20Chapter page with footnotes →

^14:13And he shall slaughter the lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place; for as the sin offering, the guilt offering is for the priest: it is holy of holies.

¹⁴And the priest shall take of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of the one being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the big toe of his right foot. ¹⁵And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it upon the palm of the priest's left hand. ¹⁶And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is upon his left palm, and he shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD. ¹⁷And of the rest of the oil that is upon his palm the priest shall put upon the tip of the right ear of the one being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the guilt offering.

¹⁸And the remainder of the oil that is upon the priest's palm he shall put upon the head of the one being cleansed; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD. ¹⁹And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for the one being cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering. ²⁰And the priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

3Reading 3 Leviticus 14:21–32Chapter page with footnotes →

^14:21And if he is poor, and his hand does not reach, then he shall take one lamb as a guilt offering for waving, to make atonement for him, and one tenth-part of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil; ²²and two turtledoves, or two sons of a dove, such as his hand reaches; and one shall be a sin offering, and the one a burnt offering.

²³And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of appointed time (mo-ed), before the LORD. ²⁴And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD.

²⁵And he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take of the blood of the guilt offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of the one being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the big toe of his right foot. ²⁶And of the oil the priest shall pour upon the priest's left palm. ²⁷And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger of the oil that is upon his left palm seven times before the LORD. ²⁸And the priest shall put of the oil that is upon his palm upon the tip of the right ear of the one being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the big toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the guilt offering.

²⁹And the remainder of the oil that is upon the priest's palm he shall put upon the head of the one being cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD. ³⁰And he shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the sons of the dove, of that which his hand reaches; ³¹that which his hand reaches, the one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering, with the grain offering; and the priest shall make atonement for the one being cleansed before the LORD.

³²This is the Torah of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand does not reach in his cleansing.

4Reading 4 Leviticus 14:33–53Chapter page with footnotes →

A Plague in a House

^14:33And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: ³⁴When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you for a possession, and I put a plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession, ³⁵then he whose house it is shall come and tell the priest, saying, "Something like a plague has appeared to me in the house."

³⁶And the priest shall command, and they shall clear the house before the priest comes to see the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean; and afterward the priest shall come to see the house.

³⁷And he shall look at the plague, and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and their appearance is lower than the wall, ³⁸then the priest shall go out of the house to the entrance of the house, and he shall shut up the house seven days.

³⁹And the priest shall return on the seventh day, and he shall look, and behold, if the plague has spread in the walls of the house, ⁴⁰then the priest shall command, and they shall pull out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them outside the city to an unclean place. ⁴¹And he shall scrape the house within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they have scraped off outside the city to an unclean place.

⁴²And they shall take other stones, and bring them in place of the stones; and he shall take other dust, and plaster the house.

⁴³And if the plague returns and breaks out in the house, after he has pulled out the stones, and after the house has been scraped, and after it has been plastered, ⁴⁴then the priest shall come and look, and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house: it is unclean. ⁴⁵And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timbers, and all the dust of the house; and he shall carry it out outside the city to an unclean place. ⁴⁶And he who comes into the house all the days it is shut up shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. ⁴⁷And he who lies down in the house shall wash his garments; and he who eats in the house shall wash his garments.

Cleansing a Home

⁴⁸And if the priest indeed comes and looks, and behold, the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

⁴⁹And he shall take to purify the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet of worm, and hyssop. ⁵⁰And he shall slaughter the one bird into an earthen vessel over living water.

⁵¹And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet of worm, and the living bird, and he shall dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the living water, and he shall sprinkle the house seven times. ⁵²And he shall purify the house with the blood of the bird, and with the living water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet of worm.

⁵³And he shall send away the living bird outside the city upon the face of the field; and he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.

5Reading 5 Leviticus 14:54–15:15Chapter page with footnotes →

^14:54This is the Torah for every plague of leprosy, and for the scall, ⁵⁵and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house, ⁵⁶and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot, ⁵⁷to teach in the day of the unclean and in the day of the clean: this is the Torah of leprosy.

The Uncleanness of Men

^15:1And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: ²Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: A man, a man, when he becomes one having a discharge from his flesh, his discharge is unclean. ³And this shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his flesh runs with his discharge, or his flesh is stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.

⁴Every bed on which he that has the discharge lies shall be unclean, and every vessel on which he sits shall be unclean. ⁵And a man who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. ⁶And he that sits on the vessel on which he that has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

⁷And he that touches the flesh of him that has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. ⁸And when he that has the discharge spits on him that is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

⁹And every saddle on which he that has the discharge rides shall be unclean. ¹⁰And everyone who touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening; and he that carries them shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.

¹¹And everyone whom he that has the discharge touches, when he has not rinsed his hands in water, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. ¹²And the earthen vessel that he that has the discharge touches shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

The Cleansing of Men

¹³And when he that has the discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in living water, and be clean. ¹⁴And on the eighth day he shall take to himself two turtledoves, or two sons of a dove, and come before the LORD to the opening of the tent of appointed time (mo-ed), and give them to the priest. ¹⁵And the priest shall offer them, one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.

6Reading 6 Leviticus 15:16–28Chapter page with footnotes →

^15:16And a man, when an emission of seed goes out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. ¹⁷And every garment and every skin on which is the emission of seed shall be washed in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. ¹⁸And a woman with whom a man lies, an emission of seed, they shall both bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

The Uncleanness of Women

¹⁹And a woman, when she has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity seven days; and everyone who touches her shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. ²⁰And everything on which she lies in her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean. ²¹And everyone who touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

²²And everyone who touches any vessel on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening. ²³And if it is on the bed, or on the vessel on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

²⁴And if a man indeed lies with her, and her menstrual impurity is upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

²⁵And a woman, when her flow of blood flows many days not in the time of her menstrual impurity, or when she has a discharge beyond her menstrual impurity, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her menstrual impurity: she is unclean. ²⁶Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her menstrual impurity; and every vessel on which she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity. ²⁷And everyone who touches them shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean before(ad עד) the evening.

The Cleansing of Women

²⁸And if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

7Reading 7 Leviticus 15:29–33Chapter page with footnotes →

^15:29And on the eighth day she shall take to herself two turtledoves, or two sons of a dove, and bring them to the priest, to the opening of the tent of appointed time (mo-ed). ³⁰And the priest shall offer the one a sin offering and the one a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for the discharge of her uncleanness.

³¹And you shall separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile My tabernacle that is in their midst.

³²This is the Torah of him that has a discharge, and of him from whom an emission of seed goes out, so that he is unclean by it; ³³and of her that is unwell in her menstrual impurity, and of him that has a discharge, of his discharge, for the male and for the female, and for a man who lies with an unclean woman.

P2 Kings 7:3–20Chapter page with footnotes →

The Syrians Flee

^7:3And four men were lepers at the entrance of the gate; and they said each man to his neighbor, "Why are we sitting here until we die? ⁴If we say, 'We will enter the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now, come, and let us fall to the camp of Aram; if they keep us alive, we shall live, and if they kill us, we shall die."

⁵And they rose up in the twilight to go to the camp of Aram; and they came to the edge of the camp of Aram, and behold, there was no man there. ⁶And my Lord had made the camp of Aram to hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, a sound of a great force; and they said each man to his brother, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us."

⁷And they rose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents and their horses and their donkeys—the camp as it was—and fled for their soul.

⁸And these lepers came to the edge of the camp, and they entered into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried from there silver and gold and garments, and went and hid them; and they returned and entered into another tent, and carried from there, and went and hid them.

⁹And they said each man to his neighbor, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good tidings, and we are keeping silent; if we wait until the morning light, iniquity will find us. So now, come, let us go and tell the house of the king."

¹⁰And they came and called to the gatekeeper of the city, and told them, saying, "We came to the camp of Aram, and behold, there was no man there, nor voice of man, but the horse tied, and the donkey tied, and the tents as they were."

¹¹And the gatekeepers called out, and they told it within the house of the king.

¹²And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, "Let me tell you now what Aram has done to us. They know that we are hungry, and they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, 'When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and we shall enter into the city.'"

¹³And one of his servants answered and said, "Let them take now five of the horses that remain, which are left in it—behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel that have perished—and let us send and see."

¹⁴And they took two chariots of horses, and the king sent after the camp of Aram, saying, "Go and see." ¹⁵And they went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.

Elisha’s Prophecy Fulfilled

¹⁶And the people went out and plundered the camp of Aram. And a seah of fine flour was for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

¹⁷And the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned over the gate; and the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had spoken, who spoke when the king came down to him. ¹⁸And it came to pass, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, "Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria";

¹⁹and the captain had answered the man of God and said, "And behold, if the LORD were making windows in the heavens, could it be according to this thing?" And he said, "Behold, you are about to see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it";

²⁰and so it came to pass to him; and the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.

AMatthew 8:1–4Chapter page with footnotes →

The Leper’s Prayer

^8:1And when He had come down from the mountain, large crowds followed Him. ²And behold, a leper came and was worshiping Him, saying: "Lord, if You are willing, You are able to make me clean."

³And stretching out His hand, Yeshua touched him, saying: "I am willing — be cleansed" — and immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

⁴And Yeshua said to him: "See that you tell no one, but go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."