33. Ad-noy spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying:
Verse 34: When you will come into the land of Canaan
that I will
give to you for a possession,
and I shall put the eruption of tzora'as
in the house of the land of your possession.
Verse 35: Whoever's house it is, shall come
and tell to the kohein, saying,
"Something like an eruption
has appeared to me in the house."
Verse 36: The kohein shall command,
and they shall empty the house [of its contents]
before the kohein will come
to see the eruption
so everything
in the house shall not become impure.
Afterwards, the kohein shall come
to see the house.
Verse 37: He shall see the eruption and behold!
The eruption is in the walls of the house;
impressions, of greenest green or of reddest red
and they appear to be
lower than the [surface of] the wall.
Verse 38: The kohein shall go out of the house
to the entrance of the house,
and place the house under quarantine
for seven days.
Verse 39: The
kohein shall return on the seventh day
and shall see; and behold!
the eruption has spread in the walls of the house.
Verse 40: The kohein shall command
and they shall remove the stones
in which there is the eruption
and cast them away, beyond the city
to an impure place.
Verse 41: He shall scrape the house
from the inside, all around,
and they shall throw away
the earth
that they scraped,
beyond the city, to an impure place.
Verse 42: They shall take other stones,
and they shall bring them to replace the stones,
and he shall take other earth
and plaster the house.
Verse 43: If the eruption returns
and sprouts in the house
after the stones were removed,
and after the house was scraped,
and after it was plastered,
Verse 44: the kohein
shall come and see;
and behold!
the eruption has spread in the house;
prickly tzora'as is in the house,
it is impure.
Verse 45: He shall
dismantle the house;
its stones and its wood
and all the earth of
the house.
He shall take it out beyond the city,
to an impure
place.
Verse 46: Whoever will come inside the house
[during] all the
days of its confinement,
shall be impure until the evening.
Verse 47: Whoever
will lie down inside the house
shall wash his garments.
Whoever will eat inside the house
shall wash his garments.
Verse 48: If the kohein shall come and see;
and behold!
the eruption did not spread in the house
after the
house was plastered,
the kohein shall pronounce the house [to be] pure,
for the eruption has been healed.
Verse 49: He shall take, to purify the house,
two birds,
cedar wood, crimson thread and hyssop.
Verse 50: He shall slaughter one bird
in an earthenware vessel, over running water.
Verse 51: He shall take
the cedar wood, the hyssop,
the crimson thread
and the live bird
and immerse them
in the blood of the slaughtered bird
and in the running water,
and sprinkle the house seven times.
Verse 52: He shall purify the house
with the blood of the bird,
and with
the running water,
and with the live bird,
the cedar wood, the hyssop
and the crimson thread.
Verse 53: He shall send the living bird,
beyond the city into the open field,
and atone for the house and it shall be purified.
Chamishi (Fifth Aliyah)
Verse 54: This is the law
for all the eruptions of tzora'as
and for the nesek.
Verse 55: For tzora'as of the garment and of the house.
Verse 56: For the spot white as wool,
for the spot that is nearly as white
and for the spot white as snow.
Verse 57: To teach [the law]
of the day of becoming impure
and of the day of becoming pure;
this is the law of tzora'as.
Chapter 15
Verse 1: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe and to Aharon,
saying:
Verse 2: Speak to Bnei Yisroel
and say to them;
should [discharge] flow from the body of any man,
[because of] his
discharge, he is impure.
Verse 3: This is the law of his impurity,
when his discharge flows;
His flesh drips [with] his discharge
or his flesh is
stopped up by his discharge,
it causes him to become impure.
Verse 4: Anything that is used specifically for sleeping,
upon which will lie a zov
[a person from whom a discharge flows,]
shall become impure.
Every vessel upon
which he sits,
shall become impure.
Verse 5: A person who touches his bed
shall wash his garments and bathe in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 6: Whoever sits
on the vessel
that was sat upon by a zov
shall wash his garments and bathe in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 7: Whoever touches the flesh of a zov
shall wash his garments and bathe in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 8: If the zov spits
on a ritually clean person,
he shall wash his garments and bathe in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 9: Anything that is used for riding
upon which a
zov will ride
shall become impure.
Verse 10: Anyone who touches
anything which is beneath him
shall be impure until the evening.
and whoever carries them
shall wash his garments and bathe in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 11: If a zov touches anyone
and his hands were not rinsed in water,
he shall wash
his garments and bathe in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 12: An earthenware vessel
which the zov will touch
shall be broken.
Any wooden vessel shall be rinsed in water.
Verse 13: When a
zov will become ritually clean,
from his discharge-impurity,
he shall count for himself
seven days for his purification
and wash his garments,
and bathe in running water,
and he will be purified.
Verse 14: On the eighth day
he shall take for himself
two turtledoves or two young pigeons
and come before Ad-noy,
to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting
and give them to the kohein.
Verse 15: The kohein shall do (offer) them,
one as a sin-offering
and the [other] one as a burnt-offering.
The kohein will atone for him before Ad-noy,
from his discharge-impurity.
16. A man, if semen issues from him,
he shall
bathe his entire body in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 17: Any garment and any leather object
upon which there is semen
shall be washed in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 18: A woman,
with whom a man will lie conjugally;
they shall bathe in water,
and are impure until the evening.
Verse 19: When a woman has a discharge
[and] the discharge will be blood in her body,
for seven
days she will be
in [the state of] her menstrual impurity.
Anyone who touches her
will be impure until the evening.
Verse 20: Everything that she sleeps on,
during her menstrual impurity,
will become impure
and everything that she sits on
will be impure.
Verse 21: Anyone who touches what she slept on,
shall wash his garments and bathe in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 22: Anyone who touches
any vessel that she sits on,
shall wash his garments and bathe in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 23: If he is on the bed
or on the
vessel that she is sitting on,
when he touches it,
he shall be impure until the evening.
Verse 24: If a man will lie conjugally with her,
her menstrual impurity will be on him
and he is impure for seven days.
Anything used for sleeping---
if he should sleep on it---
it will be impure.
Verse 25: When a woman
discharges
her blood-flow, many days
outside her menstrual cycle,
or if it flows after her menstrual cycle,
all the days of her discharge-impurity
shall be as her days of menstrual inpurity;
she is impure.
Verse 26: Anything
used for sleeping
upon which she will lie
[on] any of her discharge-impurity-days,
as the bed of her menstrual inpurity
it shall be to her.
Every vessel upon which she sits
will be impure, just as [is] her menstrual-impurity.
Verse 27: Anyone that touches them will be impure
and he shall wash his garments
and bathe in water
and is impure until the evening.
Verse 28: When she has become pure
from her discharge-impurity,
she shall count seven days for herself
and afterwards she becomes purified.
Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)
Verse 29: On the eighth day
she shall take for herself,
two
turtledoves or two young pigeons
and she shall bring them to the kohein,
to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Verse 30: The kohein shall do (offer)
one as a sin-offering
and the [other] one as a burnt-offering.
The kohein will atone for her before Ad-noy
from her discharge-impurity.
Maftir
Verse 31: You shall separate Bnei Yisroel
from their impurities
and they will not die because of their impurities
through their defilement
of My dwelling in their midst.
Verse 32: This is the law of the zov
and of him from whom semen issues
to become
impure through it.
Verse 33: For the menstruant
during her period of separation
and for one who has a discharge
for a male and for a female;
and for the man
that will lie conjugally with an impure woman.
Ninety verses.
Haftarah: II Melachim 7:3--20.
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