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"This is to be the law concerning the person afflicted with tzara‘at on the day of his purification. He is to be brought to the cohen,

He who is to be purified must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water. Then he will be clean; and after that, he may enter the camp; but he must live outside his tent for seven days.

On the seventh day he is to shave all the hair off his head, also his beard and eyebrows — he must shave off all his hair; and he is to wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; and he will be clean.

The cohen is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Next, the cohen is to take some of the two-thirds-pint of olive oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand,

dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle from the oil with his finger seven times before Adonai .

Then the cohen is to put some of the remaining oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand, on the big toe of his right foot and on the blood of the guilt offering.

Finally, the cohen is to put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the person being purified; and the cohen will make atonement for him before Adonai .

The cohen is to offer the sin offering and make atonement for the person being purified because of his uncleanness; afterwards, he is to slaughter the burnt offering.

On the eighth day, he will bring them to the cohen for his purification, to the entrance of the tent of meeting before Adonai .

He is to slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering; and the cohen is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

The cohen is to take some of the olive oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand,

and sprinkle with his right hand some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Adonai .

The cohen is to put some of the oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the person being purified, on the thumb of his right hand, on the big toe of his right foot — in the same place as the blood of the guilt offering.

Finally, the cohen is to put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the person being purified, to make atonement for him before Adonai .

whatever his means suffice for — the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering — with the grain offering; thus the cohen will make atonement before Adonai for the person being purified.

Such is the law for the person who has tzara‘at sores if he cannot afford the usual elements used for his purification."

Whoever lies down or eats in the house must wash his clothes.

"Tell the people of Isra'el, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, the discharge is unclean.

The discharge is unclean no matter whether it continues flowing or has stopped; it is still his uncleanness.