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"When anyone loses hair from his head and is bald, he is clean.

If he loses hair from the front of his head and has a bald forehead, he is clean.

But if there is a red-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a skin disease breaking out in those places.

A priest must look at that person. If the swelling of the sore on his bald head or forehead is red-white, like a skin disease that spreads,

that person has a skin disease. He is unclean. The priest must announce that the person is unclean because of the sore on his head.

"If a person has a skin disease that spreads, he must warn other people by shouting, ‘Unclean, unclean!' His clothes must be torn at the seams, he must let his hair stay uncombed, and he must cover his mouth.

"The person to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water. Then he will be clean and may go into the camp, though he must stay outside his tent for the first seven days.

On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—the hair from his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will be clean.

The priest who is to announce that the person is clean must bring him and his sacrifices before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.

Then the priest will take some of the oil and pour it into his own left hand.

He will dip a finger of his right hand into the oil that is in his left hand, and with his finger he will sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the Lord .

The priest will put some oil from his hand on the bottom of the right ear of the person to be made clean, some on the thumb of the person's right hand, and some on the big toe of the person's right foot. The oil will go on these places on top of the blood for the penalty offering.

He will put the rest of the oil that is in his left hand on the head of the person to be made clean. In this way the priest will make that person clean so he can belong to the Lord again.

On the eighth day the person will bring them for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, before the Lord .

He will also pour some of the oil into his own left hand.

Then with a finger of his right hand, he will sprinkle some of the oil from his left hand seven times before the Lord .

The priest will take some of the oil from his hand and put it on the bottom of the right ear of the person to be made clean. He will also put some of it on the thumb of the person's right hand and some on the big toe of the person's right foot. The oil will go on these places on top of the blood from the penalty offering.

The priest must put the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the head of the person to be made clean, to make him clean so he can belong to the Lord again.

"Suppose a person has taken away the old stones and plaster and put in new stones and plaster. If mildew again appears in his house,

Anyone who eats in that house or lies down there must wash his clothes.