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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."

he is to go out of the house to its door and seal up the house for seven days.

But he is to set the live bird free outside the city in an open field; thus will he make atonement for the house; and it will be clean.

(LY: v) "Such is the law for all kinds of tzara‘at sores, for a crusted area,

for tzara‘at in a garment, for a house,

for a swelling, for a scab and for a bright spot,

"‘When a person with a discharge has become free of it, he is to count seven days for his purification. Then he is to wash his clothes and bathe his body in running water; after that, he will be clean.

On the eighth day, he is to take for himself two doves or two young pigeons, come before Adonai to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the cohen.

The cohen is to offer them, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering; thus the cohen will make atonement for him on account of his discharge before Adonai .

"‘If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she will be in her state of niddah for seven days. Whoever touches her will be unclean until evening.

"‘If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days not during her period, or if her discharge lasts beyond the normal end of her period, then throughout the time she is having an unclean discharge she will be as when she is in niddah — she is unclean.

Every bed she lies on at any time while she is having her discharge will be for her like the bed she uses during her time of niddah; and everything she sits on will be unclean with uncleanness like that of her time of niddah.

(LY: vii) On the eighth day, she is to take for herself two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the cohen at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

The cohen is to offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering; thus the cohen will make atonement for her before Adonai on account of her unclean discharge.

(Maftir) "‘In this way you will separate the people of Isra'el from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in a state of uncleanness for defiling my tabernacle which is there with them.

"‘Such is the law for the person who has a discharge; for the man who has a seminal emission that makes him unclean;

for the woman in niddah during her menstrual period; for the person, man or woman, with a discharge; and for the man who has sexual relations with a woman who is unclean. Haftarah M'tzora: M'lakhim Bet (2 Kings) 7:3–20 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah M'tzora: Mattityahu (Matthew) 9:20–26; Mark 5:24b–34; Luke 8:42b– 48; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 13:4

"He is to take from the community of the people of Isra'el two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.