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Book 3: Leviticus


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Chapter 14

Verse 1: And Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying:

Verse 2: This shall be the law regarding the person with tzora'as on the day of his purification, he shall be brought to the kohein.

Verse 3: The kohein shall go out beyond the encampment. The kohein shall see; and behold! the skin-eruption of tzora'as has healed from the person with tzora'as.

Verse 4: The kohein shall command to take for the person undergoing purification two live, pure [kosher] birds, cedar wood, crimson thread and hyssop.

Verse 5: The kohein shall command to slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel, over running water.

Verse 6: [As for] the living bird, he shall take it; and the cedar wood, the crimson thread and the hyssop and immerse them and the live bird in the blood of the slaughtered bird, over the running water.

Verse 7: He shall sprinkle on the person undergoing purification from the tzora'as, seven times and make him pure; and send the live bird into the open field.

Verse 8: The person undergoing purification shall wash his garments, and shave off all of his hair, and bathe in water, and he will become purified. After [this], he may come into the encampment. He must remain, outside of his tent, for seven days.

Verse 9: It shall be, that on the seventh day, he shall shave off all of his hair, [that of] his head, his beard and his eyebrows; he shall shave off all of his hair. He shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water and become purified.

Verse 10: On the eighth day, he shall take two unblemished lambs and one ewe in her first year, unblemished, and three tenths fine flour, for a meal-offering, mixed with oil and one log of oil.

Verse 11: The kohein doing the purification, shall place the man undergoing the purification and the [aforementioned] items, before Ad-noy, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

Verse 12: The kohein shall take one lamb and bring it as a guilt-offering, and (with) the log of oil and wave them as a wave-offering before Ad-noy.

Sheini (Second Aliyah)

Verse 13: He shall slaughter the lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the sacred place; for, just as the sin-offering--- is the guilt-offering; it belongs to the kohein, it is most holy.

Verse 14: The kohein shall take from the blood of the guilt-offering and the kohein shall put it on the middle ridge of the right ear of the person being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Verse 15: The kohein shall take from the log of the oil and he shall pour it onto the kohein's left palm.

Verse 16: The kohein shall immerse his right finger in some of the oil that is on his left palm and he shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Ad-noy.

Verse 17: From the remaining oil that is on his palm, the kohein shall put on the middle ridge of the right ear of the person being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot; on [over] the blood of the guilt-offering.

Verse 18: Whatever oil remains that is on the palm of the kohein, he shall put on the head of the person undergoing purification. The kohein will atone for him before Ad-noy.

Verse 19: The kohein shall do (offer) the sin-offering and atone for the person undergoing purification from his impurity and afterwards he shall slaughter the burnt-offering.

Verse 20: The kohein shall raise up the burnt-offering and the meal-offering onto the altar and the kohein will atone for him and he will be purified. 21. If he is poor and his means are not sufficient, he shall take one lamb as a guilt-offering, for a wave-offering to atone for him and one tenth fine flour mixed with oil, as a meal-offering and a log of oil.

Verse 22: And two turtledoves or two young pigeons such as his means suffice. One shall be for a sin-offering and one shall be for a burnt-offering.

Verse 23: He shall bring them on the eighth day of his purification, to the kohein, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, before Ad-noy.

Verse 24: The kohein shall take the guilt-offering sheep and the log of oil and the kohein shall wave them as a wave-offering before Ad-noy.

Verse 25: He shall slaughter the guilt-offering lamb. The kohein shall take some blood of the guilt-offering and put it on the middle ridge of the right ear of the person undergoing purification, and on the thumb of his right hand and the big toe of his right foot.

Verse 26: The kohein shall pour some of the oil onto the kohein's left palm.

Verse 27: The kohein shall sprinkle, with his right finger, some of the oil that is on his left palm, seven times before Ad-noy.

Verse 28: The kohein shall put some of the oil that is on his palm, on the middle ridge of the right ear of the person undergoing purification, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt-offering.

Verse 29: What remains of the oil that is on the palm of the kohein, he shall put on the head of the person undergoing purification, to achieve his atonement before Ad-noy.

Verse 30: He shall do (offer) one of the turtledoves or of the young pigeons, from that which his means suffice,

Verse 31: that for which his means are sufficient, one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering with the meal-offering. The kohein will atone for the person undergoing purification before Ad-noy.

Verse 32: This is the law of whoever has the skin-eruption of tzora'as whose means are not sufficient in his purification. 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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