Making People “Clean” From Skin Diseases
1The Lord spoke to Moses. He told him to say to the people, 2“Here are the rules for making anyone ‘clean’ who has had a skin disease. They apply when the person is brought to the priest. 3The priest must go outside the camp. He must look the person over carefully. Suppose they have been healed of their skin disease. 4Then the priest will order someone to bring him two live ‘clean’ birds. He will also order someone to bring him some cedar wood, bright red yarn and branches of a hyssop plant. All these things will be used to make the person ‘clean.’ 5The priest will order someone to kill one of the birds. It must be killed over fresh water in a clay pot. 6Then the priest must take the live bird. He must dip it into the blood of the bird killed over the fresh water. He must dip it into the blood together with the cedar wood, the bright red yarn and the hyssop plant. 7The priest will sprinkle the blood on the person who had the skin disease. That will make them ‘clean.’ The priest must sprinkle them seven times. Then the priest must announce that they are ‘clean.’ After that, the priest must let the live bird go free in the open fields.
8“The person must also wash their clothes to be made ‘clean.’ They must shave off all their hair. They must take a bath. Then they will be ‘clean.’ After that, they may come into the camp. But they must stay outside their tent for seven days. 9On the seventh day they must shave off all their hair. They must shave their head. They must shave off their beard. They must also shave off their eyebrows and the rest of their hair. They must wash their clothes. They must take a bath. Then they will be ‘clean.’
10“On the eighth day they must bring two male lambs and one female lamb as an offering. The female must be a year old. The lambs must not have any flaws. They must also bring 11 pounds of the finest flour as a grain offering. They must mix it with olive oil. They must also bring 11 ounces of oil. 11The priest who announces that the person is ‘clean’ must bring them and their offerings to me. He must do it at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
12“Then the priest must take one of the male lambs. He must offer it as a guilt offering. He must offer it along with 11 ounces of oil. He must lift all of it up and wave it in front of me as a wave offering. 13He must kill the lamb in the holy area where sin offerings and burnt offerings are killed. The guilt offering belongs to the priest, just as the sin offering does. The guilt offering is very holy. 14The priest must take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the person’s right earlobe. He must put some on the thumb of their right hand. He must also put some on the big toe of their right foot. 15Then the priest must take some of the oil and pour it into his own left hand. 16He must dip his right forefinger into the oil in his hand. He must use his finger to sprinkle some of the oil in front of me seven times. 17The priest must put some of the oil in his hand on the same places he put the blood of the guilt offering. He must put some on the person’s right earlobe. He must put some on the thumb of their right hand. He must put some on the big toe of their right foot. 18He must put on their head the rest of the oil in his hand. It will pay for the person’s sin in my sight.
19“Then the priest must sacrifice the sin offering. It will pay for the person’s sin. They will be made ‘clean’ after being ‘unclean.’ After that, the priest will kill the burnt offering. 20He will offer it on the altar. He will offer it together with the grain offering. It will pay for the person’s sin. Then they will be ‘clean.’
21“But suppose they are poor. Suppose they can’t afford all these offerings. Then they must bring one male lamb as a guilt offering. It must be lifted up and waved in front of me to pay for their sin. They must also bring three and a half pounds of the finest flour along with the lamb. They must mix the flour with olive oil. It is a grain offering. They must offer it along with 11 ounces of oil. 22They must also bring two doves or two young pigeons that they can afford. One is for a sin offering. The other is for a burnt offering.
23“On the eighth day they must bring them to the priest so they can be made ‘clean.’ They must bring them to the entrance to the tent of meeting. They must do it in my sight. 24The priest must take the lamb for the guilt offering. He must take it together with the 11 ounces of oil. He must lift all of it up and wave it in front of me as a wave offering. 25He must kill the lamb for the guilt offering. He must take some of its blood and put it on the person’s right earlobe. He must put some on the thumb of their right hand. He must also put some on the big toe of their right foot. 26The priest must pour some of the oil into his own left hand. 27He must dip his right forefinger into the oil in his hand. He must use his finger to sprinkle some of it seven times in front of me. 28Here is what he must do with some of the oil in his hand. He must put it on the same places where he put the blood of the guilt offering. He must put some on the person’s right earlobe. He must put some on the thumb of their right hand. He must also put some on the big toe of their right foot. 29He must put on their head the rest of the oil in his hand. It will pay for the person’s sin in my sight. 30The priest will sacrifice the doves or the young pigeons that the person can afford. 31One is for a sin offering. The other is for a burnt offering. The priest must offer them together with the grain offering. In that way he will pay for the person’s sin in my sight. He will do it to make them ‘clean.’ ”
32These are the rules for anyone who has a skin disease. They are for people who can’t afford the regular offerings that are required to make them “clean.”
Making Things “Clean” From Mold
33The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron. He told them to say to the people, 34“You will enter the land of Canaan. I am giving it to you as your own. When you enter it, suppose I put mold in one of your houses. And suppose the mold spreads. 35Then the owner of that house must go and speak to the priest. He must say, ‘I’ve seen something that looks like mold in my house.’ 36The priest must order everything to be taken out of the house. It must be done before he goes in to look carefully at the mold. If it is not done, the priest must announce that everything in the house is ‘unclean.’ After the house is empty the priest must go in and check it. 37He must look carefully at the mold on the walls. Suppose it looks as if it has green or red dents in it. And suppose the dents look as if they are behind the surface of the wall. 38Then the priest must go out the door. He must close the house up for seven days. 39On the seventh day the priest will return to check the house. Suppose the mold on the walls has spread. 40Then he must order someone to tear out the stones that have mold on them. He must have them thrown into an ‘unclean’ place outside the town. 41He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped. Everything scraped off must be dumped into an ‘unclean’ place outside the town. 42Then other stones must be put in the place of the stones that had mold on them. The inside walls of the house must be coated with new clay.
43“Suppose the stones have been torn out. The house has been scraped. And the walls have been coated with new clay. But the mold appears again. 44Then the priest must go and look things over carefully. Suppose the mold has spread in the house. Then it is the kind of mold that destroys things. The house is not ‘clean.’ 45It must be torn down. The stones, the wood and all the clay coating must be torn out. All of it must be taken out of the town to an ‘unclean’ place.
46“Suppose someone goes into the house while it is closed up. Then they will be ‘unclean’ until evening. 47If they sleep or eat in the house, they must wash their clothes.
48“But suppose the priest comes to look things over carefully. And suppose the mold has not spread after the walls had been coated with new clay. Then he will announce that the house is ‘clean.’ The mold is gone. 49To make the house pure, the priest must get two birds. He must also get some cedar wood, bright red yarn and branches of a hyssop plant. 50He must kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot. 51Then he must take the cedar wood, the hyssop plant, the bright red yarn and the live bird. He must dip all of them into the blood of the dead bird. He must also dip them into the fresh water. He must sprinkle the house seven times. 52The priest will use the blood and the water to make the house pure. He will use the live bird to make it pure. He will also use the cedar wood, the hyssop plant and the bright red yarn to make it pure. 53Then he must let the live bird go free in the open fields outside the town. In that way he will make the house pure. It will be ‘clean.’ ”
54These are the rules for skin diseases. They apply to sores. 55They apply to mold in clothes or in houses. 56They also apply to swellings, rashes or shiny red spots on the skin. 57Use these rules to decide whether something is “clean” or not.
These are the rules for skin diseases and for mold.
Purificación de las enfermedades cutáneas
1El Señor dijo a Moisés: 2«Esta es la ley que se aplicará para declarar pura a una persona infectada. Será presentada ante el sacerdote, 3quien la examinará fuera del campamento. Si el sacerdote comprueba que la persona infectada se ha sanado de su enfermedad, 4mandará traer para la purificación de esa persona dos aves vivas y puras, un pedazo de madera de cedro, un paño escarlata y una rama de hisopo. 5Después el sacerdote mandará degollar la primera ave sobre una vasija de barro llena de agua de manantial. 6Tomará la otra ave viva, la madera de cedro, el paño escarlata y la rama de hisopo, y mojará todo esto junto con el ave viva en la sangre del ave que fue degollada sobre el agua de manantial. 7Luego rociará siete veces a quien va a ser purificado de la infección y lo declarará puro. Entonces dejará libre a campo abierto el ave viva.
8»El que se purifica deberá lavarse la ropa, afeitarse todo el cabello y bañarse. Así quedará puro. Después de esto podrá entrar en el campamento, pero se quedará fuera de su tienda de campaña durante siete días. 9Al séptimo día se rapará por completo el cabello, la barba y las cejas; se lavará la ropa y se bañará. Así quedará puro.
10»Al octavo día, el que se purifica deberá traer dos corderos sin defecto y una cordera de un año, también sin defecto; como ofrenda de cereal traerá tres décimas partes de un efa14:10 Es decir, aprox. 5 kg. de harina refinada amasada con aceite, junto con un log14:10 Es decir, aprox. un tercio de litro; también en v. 21. de aceite. 11El sacerdote que oficia en la purificación presentará ante el Señor, a la entrada de la Tienda de reunión, al que se purifica y a sus ofrendas.
12»Después el sacerdote tomará uno de los corderos y, junto con el log de aceite, lo ofrecerá como sacrificio por la culpa. Lo mecerá ante el Señor, pues se trata de una ofrenda mecida. 13Después degollará al cordero en el lugar santo donde se degüellan las víctimas del sacrificio por el perdón de pecados y del holocausto, porque el sacrificio por la culpa, al igual que el sacrificio por el perdón, pertenecen al sacerdote. Se trata de algo sumamente sagrado. 14Luego tomará el sacerdote un poco de sangre del sacrificio por la culpa y la untará en el lóbulo de la oreja derecha, en el pulgar de la mano derecha y en el dedo gordo del pie derecho del que se purifica. 15El sacerdote tomará un poco de aceite y se lo echará en la palma de la mano izquierda. 16Mojará el índice de la mano derecha en el aceite que tiene en la palma izquierda y rociará el aceite siete veces ante el Señor. 17Luego, del aceite que quede en la mano, el sacerdote untará un poco en el lóbulo de la oreja derecha, en el pulgar de la mano derecha y en el dedo gordo del pie derecho del que se purifica, sobre la sangre del sacrificio por la culpa. 18El sacerdote derramará sobre la cabeza del que se purifica el aceite que quede en la mano. De este modo, celebrará ante el Señor el rito para pedir el perdón a favor de él.
19»A continuación, el sacerdote ofrecerá el sacrificio por el perdón, pidiendo el perdón por el que se purifica de su impureza. Hecho esto, degollará la víctima del holocausto 20y la ofrecerá en el altar junto con la ofrenda de cereal. Así obtendrá el perdón por él y lo declarará puro.
21»Si el que se purifica es pobre y no tiene para comprar lo requerido, tomará como sacrificio por la culpa un solo cordero, el cual será mecido para obtener el perdón de sus pecados. También llevará como ofrenda de cereal la décima parte de un efa14:21 Es decir, aprox. 1.6 kg. de harina refinada amasada con aceite, y un log de aceite, 22junto con dos tórtolas o dos pichones de paloma, según lo que pueda pagar, uno como sacrificio por el perdón y otro como holocausto.
23»Al octavo día los llevará a la entrada de la Tienda de reunión, ante el sacerdote, para su purificación en presencia del Señor. 24El sacerdote tomará el cordero del sacrificio por la culpa, junto con el aceite, y los mecerá ante el Señor, pues se trata de una ofrenda mecida. 25Después degollará al cordero del sacrificio por la culpa, tomará un poco de sangre y la untará en el lóbulo de la oreja derecha, en el pulgar de la mano derecha y en el dedo gordo del pie derecho del que se purifica. 26El sacerdote se echará aceite en la palma de la mano izquierda, 27y con el dedo índice de su mano derecha lo rociará siete veces ante el Señor. 28Luego, al que se purifica, el sacerdote le untará un poco del aceite que quede en la mano. Se lo untará en el lóbulo de la oreja derecha, en el pulgar de la mano derecha y en el dedo gordo del pie derecho, allí donde puso la sangre del sacrificio por la culpa. 29El aceite que quede en la mano lo untará en la cabeza del que se purifica, y así obtendrá el perdón de sus pecados ante el Señor. 30Luego ofrecerá las tórtolas o los pichones de paloma, según lo que pueda pagar el oferente, 31uno como sacrificio por el perdón y otro como holocausto, junto con la ofrenda de cereal. Así, el sacerdote obtendrá ante el Señor el perdón de pecados en favor del que se purifica».
32Esta ley se aplicará a la persona que haya contraído una infección cutánea y no tenga para pagar las ofrendas regulares de su purificación.
Purificación de casas infectadas
33El Señor dijo a Moisés y a Aarón: 34«Si al entrar ustedes en la tierra de Canaán, la cual les doy en propiedad, yo pongo moho infeccioso en alguna de sus casas, 35el dueño de la casa deberá decirle al sacerdote: “En mi casa ha aparecido una especie de moho”. 36Entonces el sacerdote, antes de entrar para examinar el moho, mandará que desocupen la casa para que no se contamine todo lo que haya en ella. Hecho esto, el sacerdote entrará a examinarla. 37Si el moho de las paredes forma cavidades verduscas o rojizas que parezcan hundirse en la pared, 38el sacerdote saldrá de la casa y la clausurará durante siete días. 39Al séptimo día regresará y la examinará. Si el moho se ha extendido por las paredes de la casa, 40mandará quitar las piedras mohosas y tirarlas fuera de la ciudad, en un lugar impuro. 41También mandará raspar todo el interior de la casa, y el material raspado lo arrojará fuera de la ciudad, en un lugar impuro. 42Después se repondrán las antiguas piedras con otras nuevas y se recubrirá la casa con estuco nuevo.
43»Si después de haber quitado las piedras infectadas y de haber raspado y recubierto la casa, vuelve a aparecer el moho y se extiende por toda ella, 44el sacerdote irá a examinarla. Si el moho se ha extendido por toda la casa, se trata de moho corrosivo. Por lo tanto, la casa es impura 45y deberán demolerla y arrojar, en un lugar impuro fuera de la ciudad, las piedras, la madera y el estuco.
46»Cualquiera que entre en la casa mientras esté clausurada quedará impuro hasta el anochecer 47y todo el que duerma o coma en dicha casa deberá lavarse la ropa.
48»Si después de haber sido recubierta la casa el sacerdote la examina y el moho no se ha extendido, la declarará pura, porque la infección ha desaparecido. 49Para purificar la casa, el sacerdote deberá tomar dos aves, pedazos de madera de cedro, un paño escarlata y ramas de hisopo. 50Degollará una de las aves sobre una vasija de barro llena de agua de manantial; 51tomará la madera de cedro, las ramas de hisopo, el paño escarlata y la otra ave viva, y mojará todo esto en la sangre del ave degollada y en el agua de manantial. Luego rociará la casa siete veces. 52Así la purificará con la sangre del ave, con el agua de manantial, el ave viva, la madera de cedro, las ramas de hisopo y el paño escarlata. 53Soltará entonces el ave viva a campo abierto. Así purificará la casa y esta quedará pura.
54»Esta es la ley respecto a cualquier tipo de infección cutánea: de tiña 55o de moho, ya sea en la ropa o en una casa; 56de inflamación, erupción o mancha blancuzca, 57para así poder enseñar al pueblo cuándo algo es puro o impuro.
»Esta es la ley respecto a las infecciones».
