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the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet stuff and hyssop;

And the priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD;

and he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place; for the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

and the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.

The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;

and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the cereal offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

"But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering, and a log of oil;

And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting, before the LORD;

and the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.

and the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.

one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a cereal offering; and the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for him who is being cleansed.

This is the law for him in whom is a leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing."

"When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,

"But if the priest comes and makes an examination, and the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed.

And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet stuff and hyssop,

and he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field; so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean."

This is the law for any leprous disease: for an itch,

for leprosy in a garment or in a house,

and for a swelling or an eruption or a spot,

to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprosy.