Leviticus 11-15

Leviticus


Chapters 11-15

11[1-8] Yahweh told Moses and Aaron, “Tell the children of Israel, 'These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. You may eat any animal that has a parted hoof, which is divided in two, and re-chews their food. But don’t eat of those that re-chew their food, or have parted hoofs like the camel, because they re-chew their food but don't have a parted hoof, so it’s unhealthy for you. The badger, because they re-chew their food but don't have a parted hoof, so it’s unhealthy for you. The rabbit, because they re-chew their food but don't have a parted hoof, so it’s unhealthy to you. The pig, because they’ve a parted hoof, which is divided in two, but they don't re-chew their food, so it’s unhealthy for you. Don’t eat their meat, and don’t touch their dead bodies because they’re unhealthy for you.

[9-12] You may eat anything in the waters that has fins and scales in the lakes, rivers, and seas. Count as garbage anything that doesn't have fins and scales in the rivers and seas, anything that moves of all the living creatures that are in the waters, and stay away from them. Don’t eat their meat, and stay away from their dead bodies. Whatever has no fins or scales in the waters is counted as garbage to you.

[13-19] Don’t eat these birds, but stay away from them and count them as garbage: any kind of eagle, vulture, buzzard, hawk, falcon, raven, male or female ostriches, cuckoo, or any kind of bird of prey, owl, seagull, ibis, pelican, bustard, stork, heron, desert lark, and bat.

[20-25] Count all flying insects that walk on all fours as garbage. Yet you may eat any winged insect that runs around on four feet, which has legs above their feet, and hops on the earth. You may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper. But all winged insects that run around on four feet, count as garbage. You’ll become unhealthy if you eat them or touch their dead body and won’t be clean until evening. Whoever carries any part of their dead body will wash their clothes, and won’t be clean until evening.

[26-28] Every animal which has a parted foot that isn’t divided in two, nor re-chews their food, is unhealthy to you. Everyone who touches them will be unhealthy. Whatever runs on paws, among all animals that have four feet, they’re unhealthy to you. Whoever touches their dead body won’t be clean until evening. Whoever carries their dead body will wash their clothes, and won’t be clean until evening. They are unhealthy to you.

[29-38] These are what are unhealthy to you among the small animals that run around on the earth: the weasel, the rat, the mole or any of the rodents; frogs, toads, salamanders, turtles, crocodiles, and lizards, or any of the cold-blooded creatures. These are unhealthy to you among all the small creatures. Whoever touches their dead body won’t be clean until evening. On whatever any of them falls when it dies, it will be unhealthy; whether it’s a bowl of wood, clothing, skin, sack, or whatever it is that is used for work, it must be put into water, and it won’t be clean until evening. Every earthen bowl, into which any of them falls, and all that’s in it will be unhealthy, and you’ll break it. All food mixed with water will be unhealthy; and all drink that may be drunk in every such bowl will be unhealthy. Everywhere part of their dead body falls will be unhealthy; whether on oven, or stove to cook on, it will be broken in pieces because it’s unhealthy to you. Nevertheless a spring or a well in which water is a gathered will be clean: but whatever touches their dead body will be unhealthy. If part of their dead body falls on any seed which is to be planted, it’s clean. But if the seed is put in water to be eaten, and part of their dead body falls on it, it’s unhealthy to you.

[39-40] If any animal dies naturally, which you may eat; whoever touches its dead body won’t be clean until evening. Whoever eats of its dead body will wash their clothes, and won’t be clean until evening. And those who carry its dead body will wash their clothes, and won’t be clean until evening.

[41-43] Everything that crawls on the earth is counted as garbage. It won’t be eaten. Whatever crawls on its belly like a snake, and whatever has four feet like an insect, or whatever has many feet like a spider, every small thing that runs around on the earth, don’t eat them and count them as garbage. Don’t make yourselves filthy with anything that crawls, nor will you make yourselves unhealthy with them, so that you won’t be clean.

[44-47] I Am Yahweh your God. So set yourselves apart and be holy because I am holy: nor will you treat yourselves as common by eating anything that moves on the earth. I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. So be holy, because I am holy. This is the law of all the animals, birds, fish, and of everything that crawls on the earth, to make a difference between what’s unhealthy and what’s clean, and between what may and may not be eaten of all the living things.'”

12[1-5] Yahweh told Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, 'If a woman gets pregnant, and has a male child, then she’ll be unhealthy seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she’ll be unhealthy. In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off. She’ll continue bleeding for thirty-three days to be cleansed. She won’t touch anything holy, nor come into the place of worship, until the days of her cleansing are finished. But if she has a female child, then she’ll be unhealthy two weeks, as in her period; and she’ll continue bleeding for sixty-six days to be cleansed.

[6-8] When the days of her cleansing are finished, for a son, or a daughter, she’ll bring to the priest at the door of the Meeting Place, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or dove, for a sin offering and you’ll offer it to Yahweh, and cover her sins for her; and she’ll be cleansed from her bleeding. This is the law for a woman who has childbirth, whether a male or a female. If she can’t give a lamb, then she’ll take two doves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest will cover her sins for her, and she’ll be clean.'”

13[1-4] Then Yahweh told Moses and Aaron, “When someone has a swelling, a scab, or a bright spot in their skin and it looks like a severe skin disease, then they’ll be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests: and the priest will look at it: and if the hair has turned white in it, and the problem is deeper than the body's skin, it’s the disease of leprosy; and the priest will look at them, and say that they’re unhealthy. If the bright spot is white, and it isn't deeper than the skin, and the hair hasn't turned white, then the priest will separate the infected person for seven days.

[5-8] The priest will look at them on the seventh day, and if the priest thinks the problem is over, and hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest will separate them for seven more days. The priest will look at them again on the seventh day; and if the problem has faded, and hasn't spread in the skin, then the priest will say that they’re healthy. It’s a scab. They’ll wash their clothes, and are clean. But if the scab spreads on the skin, after they’ve shown it to the priest to see if their all right, they’ll show it to the priest again. The priest will look at them; and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest will say that they’re unhealthy. It’s a severe skin disease.

[9-13] When the disease of leprosy is in a human, then they’ll be brought to the priest; and the priest will look at them, and if there’s a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there’s raw skin in the swelling, it’s a severe skin disease in their body, and the priest will say that they’re unhealthy. Don’t separate them, because they’re unhealthy. If the severe skin disease breaks out all over the skin, and it covers all the skin of the infected person from head to feet, as far as the priest can see; then the priest will look at them; and, if the severe skin disease has covered their whole body, the priest will say that they’re healed of the problem. It has all turned white, so they’re healthy.

[14-17] But whenever raw skin is seen in them, they’ll be unhealthy. The priest will look at the raw skin, and say that they’re unhealthy, because the raw skin is unhealthy. It’s severe skin disease. Or if the raw skin changes again, and becomes white, then they’ll come to the priest; and the priest will look at them; and, if the problem has turned white, then the priest will say that they’re healed of the problem. They’re healthy.

[18-23] When the body has a swelling on its skin, and it has healed, and in the place of the swelling there’s a white growth, or a bright pink spot, then it will be shown to the priest; and the priest will look at it; and if it looks deeper than the skin, and the hair has turned white, then the priest will say that they’re unhealthy. It’s the disease of leprosy. It has broken out in the swelling. But if the priest looks at it, and there are no white hairs in it, and it isn't deeper than the skin, but is dull, then the priest will separate them seven days. If it spreads in the skin, then the priest will say that they’re unhealthy. It’s a problem. But if the bright spot stays there, and hasn't spread, It’s the scar from the swelling; and the priest will say that they’re clean.

[24-28] Or when the body has a burn from fire on its skin, and the raw skin of the burn becomes a bright spot, pink, or white, then the priest will look at it; and if the hair in the bright spot has turned white, and it looks deeper than the skin; it’s a severe skin disease. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest will say that they’re unhealthy. It’s the disease of leprosy. But if the priest looks at it, and there’s no white hair in the bright spot, and it isn't deeper than the skin, but is faded; then the priest will separate them seven days. The priest will look at them on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest will say that they’re unhealthy. It’s the disease of leprosy. If the bright spot stays there, and hasn't spread in the skin, but is faded, it’s the swelling from the burn, and the priest will say that they’re clean; it’s the scar from the burn.

[29-37] When a man or woman has a problem on the head or on the beard, then the priest will look at the problem; and if it looks deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest will say that they’re unhealthy: It’s an itch, a severe skin disease of the head or the beard. If the priest looks at the problem of itching, and it isn't deeper than the skin, and there’s no black hair in it, then the priest will separate the person infected with itching seven days. On the seventh day the priest will look at the problem; and if the itch hasn't spread, and there’s no yellow hair in it, and the itch isn't deeper than the skin, then they’ll be shaved, but don’t shave the itch; and the priest will separate whoever has the itch seven more days. On the seventh day, the priest will look at the itch; and if the itch hasn't spread in the skin, and it isn't deeper than the skin, then the priest will say that they’re healthy. They’ll wash their clothes, and are clean. But if the itch spreads in the skin after their healed, then the priest will look at them; and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest won’t look for the yellow hair; they’re unhealthy. But if the priest thinks the itch is healed, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, and they’re healthy. The priest will say that they’re healthy.

[38-39] When a man or a woman has bright spots in their skin, white looking; then the priest will look at them; and if the bright spots on their skin are a dull white, it’s a harmless rash, it has broken out in the skin; they’re healthy.

[40-44] If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he’s bald. He’s healthy. If his hair has fallen from the front part of his head, he’s forehead bald. He’s healthy. But if there’s a pink spot in the bald head, or forehead; it’s a severe skin disease breaking out in your bald head, or forehead. Then the priest will look at it; and if the pink spot is swelling in your bald head, or forehead, and looks like a severe skin disease, he has a severe skin disease. He’s unhealthy. The priest will say that they’re unhealthy. His problem is on the head.

[45-46] The one who has the problem will wear torn clothes, and their hair will hang loose. They’ll cup their hands around their mouth, and will call out, 'Unhealthy! Unhealthy!' How ever long the problem is in them they’ll be unhealthy. They’re unhealthy and will live alone, outside of the camp.

[47-51] The clothes also that the disease of leprosy is in, whether it’s woolen clothes, or linen clothes; whether it’s in the thread of a woven cloth; of linen, or of wool; whether in a piece of leather, or in anything made of leather; if the problem is greenish or reddish in the clothes, or in the leather, or in the threads of a woven cloth, or in anything made of leather; it’s the disease of leprosy, and will be shown to the priest. The priest will look at it, and separate it for seven days. They’ll look at the problem on the seventh day. If the problem has spread in the clothes, in the threads of the woven cloth or in the leather, whatever it’s used for, the problem is a harmful mildew. It’s unhealthy.

[52-55] Burn the clothes, whether it’s in the threads of a woven cloth, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather that has the problem, because it’s a harmful mildew. Burn it in the fire. If the priest looks at it, and the problem hasn't spread in the clothes, in the threads of the woven cloth or in any part of the leather; then the priest will say to wash whatever has the problem, and you’ll keep it separated seven more days. Then the priest will look at it, after the problem is washed; and if the problem hasn't changed its color, and the problem hasn't spread, it’s unhealthy; burn it in the fire. It’s a mildfemaled spot, whether the problem is inside or outside.

[56-59] If the priest looks, and the problem has faded after it’s washed, then you’ll tear it out of the clothes, or out of the leather, or out of the threads of a woven cloth: and if it’s seen again in the clothes, in the threads of the woven cloth or in anything of leather, it’s spreading. Burn whatever has the problem with fire. The clothes, either a woven cloth, or whatever is made of leather, will be washed, and if the problem has gone from it, then it will be washed again, and it will be clean. This is the law of the problem of mildew in clothes of wool or linen, either in a woven cloth, or in anything made of leather, to tell whether it’s healthy or unhealthy.

14[1-7] Yahweh told Moses, “This will be the law of the leper in the day of cleansing. They’ll be brought to the priest, and the priest will go out of the camp. The priest will look at them, and if the disease of leprosy is healed in the leper, then the priest will tell them to take two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and a a hyssop branch branch for whoever is to be cleansed. The priest will tell them to kill one of the birds in an earthen bowl over running water. As for the living bird, you’ll take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the a hyssop branch branch, and will dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. You’ll sprinkle on whoever is to be cleansed from the severe skin disease seven times, and will say that they’re healthy, and will let the living bird go into the open field.

[8-9] Whoever is to be cleansed will wash their clothes, and shave off all their hair, and take a bath in water; and they’ll be clean. After that they’ll come into the camp, but will live outside their tent seven days. On the seventh day, they’ll shave all their hair off, with the beard and eyebrows, all the hair they’ll shave off. They’ll wash their clothes, and take a bath, then they’ll be clean.

[10-18] On the eighth day they’ll take two male lambs without anything wrong with them, and one female lamb a year old without anything wrong with it, and thirty percent of a 3-quart jar of fine flour for a grain offering, mingled with oil, and a half quart of oil. The priest who cleanses them will set whoever is to be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the Meeting Place. The priest will take one of the male lambs, and offer it for a guilt offering, with the half quart of oil, and wave them for a wave offering to Yahweh. The priest will kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of worship; for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the guilt offering. It’s most holy. The priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of whoever is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot. The priest will take some of the half quart of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand and dip his right finger in it, and sprinkle it with his finger seven times before Yahweh. The priest will put some of the rest of the oil that’s in his hand on the tip of the right ear of whoever is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering. The rest of the oil that’s in the priest's hand will be put on the head of whoever is to be cleansed, and the priest will cover their sins before Yahweh.

[19-22] The priest will offer the sin offering, and cover the sins of whoever is to be cleansed because of their being unhealthy: and afterward will kill the burnt offering and offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. The priest will cover their sins, and they’ll be clean. If they’re poor, and can't give so much, then they’ll take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to cover their sins, and ten percent of a 3-quart jar of fine flour mingled with oil for a grain offering, and a half quart of oil; and two doves, or two young pigeons, whatever they’re able to give; and the one will be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

[23-29] On the eighth day bring them for their cleansing to the priest, to the door of the Meeting Place, to Yahweh. The priest will take the lamb of the guilt offering, and the half quart of oil, and the priest will wave them for a wave offering to Yahweh. Kill the lamb of the guilt offering and take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of whoever is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot. The priest will pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand and sprinkle with the right finger some of it seven times before Yahweh. Then the priest will put some of the oil that’s in his hand on the tip of the right ear of whoever is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot, where the blood of the guilt offering is. The rest of the oil that’s in the priest's hand put on the head of whoever is to be cleansed, to cover their sins before Yahweh.

[30-32] They’ll offer one of the doves, or of the young pigeons, whatever they’re able to give. Offer whatever they’re able to give, the first for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the grain offering. The priest will cover their sins for whoever is to be cleansed before Yahweh. This is the law for those who have the disease of leprosy, who aren’t able to give the sacrifice for their cleansing.”

[33-38] Yahweh told Moses and Aaron, “When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I Am giving to you to own, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in your land, then whoever owns the house will come and tell the priest, 'There seems to me to be some sort of problem in the house.' The priest will tell them to empty the house, before the priest goes in to look at the problem, so that all that’s in the house won’t be ruined and then the priest will go in to look at the house. The priest will look at the problem; and if the problem is ingrained in the walls of the house with green or red streaks, and it seems to go into the wall; then the priest will go outside of the house, and shut the door of the house seven days.

[39-44]Then the priest will come again on the seventh day, and look at it again. If the problem has spread in the walls of the house, then the priest will tell them to take out the stones where the problem is, and throw them outside of the city in a place for things that are unhealthy and to scrape all around the inside of the house, and pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into a place for things that are unhealthy. Then they’ll take other stones, and put them in place of those stones; and take other mortar, and plaster the house again. If the problem comes again, and breaks out in the house, after they’ve taken out the stones, and scraped the house, and after it was plastered; then the priest will come in and look; and if the problem has spread in the house, it’s a harmful mildew in the house. It’s unhealthy.

[45-48] They’ll break down the house, its stones, timber, and mortar, and carry them out of the city into a place for things that are unhealthy. And whoever goes into the house while it’s shut up won’t be clean until evening. Whoever has slept or eaten in the house will wash their clothes. If the priest comes in, and looks at it, and the problem hasn't spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest will say that the house clean, because the problem is gone.

[49-53] To cleanse the house take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and a hyssop branch. Kill one of the birds in an earthen bowl over running water. Take the cedar wood, and the hyssop branch branch, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. Cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop branch, and with the scarlet; but let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So the problem for the house will be covered; and it will be clean.”

[54-57] This is the law for any problem of a severe skin disease, for an itch, for the harmful mildew of clothes or a house, or for a swelling, a scab, or a bright spot; to teach when it’s unhealthy, and when it’s clean. This is the law of leprosy.

15[1-7] Yahweh told Moses and Aaron, “Tell the children of Israel, 'When any man has a discharge from their body, because of the discharge they’re unhealthy. Someone is unhealthy with a discharge when their body runs with a discharge, or their body has stopped from a discharge. Every bed that someone has slept on who has a discharge will be unhealthy; and everything they sit on will be unhealthy. Whoever touches their bed will wash their clothes, and take a bath, and won’t be clean until evening. Whoever sits on anything where someone has a discharge has sat will wash their clothes, and take a bath, and won’t be clean until evening. Whoever touches the body of someone with a discharge will wash their clothes, and take a bath, and won’t be clean until evening.

[8-13] If whoever has a discharge spits on someone who is healthy, then they’ll wash their clothes, and take a bath, and won’t be clean until evening. Whatever saddle someone who has a discharge rides on will be unhealthy. Whoever touches anything that was under them won’t be clean until evening. Whoever carries those things will wash their clothes, and take a bath, and won’t be clean until evening. Whoever someone who has a discharge touches, without having rinsed their hands in water, they’ll wash their clothes, and take a bath, and won’t be clean until evening. The earthen bowl, which someone who has a discharge touches, will be broken; and every bowl of wood will be rinsed in water. When whoever has a discharge is cleansed of their discharge, then after seven days they’ll be cleansed, and wash their clothes and take a bath in running water, and will be clean.

[14-18] On the eighth day take two doves, or two young pigeons, and come to Yahweh to the door of the Meeting Place, and give them to the priest: and the priest will offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest will cover their sins before Yahweh for their discharge. If any man has a release of semen, then they’ll take a bath in water, and won’t be clean until evening. All clothes and every part of the skin, where the semen touched, will be washed with water, and won’t be clean until evening. If a man has sex with a woman and there’s a release of semen, they’ll both take a bath in water, and won’t be clean until evening.

[19-24] If a woman has a discharge of a flow of blood from her body, she’ll be set apart for seven days: and whoever touches her won’t be clean until evening. Everything that she rests on or sits on while on her period will be unhealthy. Whoever touches her bed will wash their clothes, and take a bath, and won’t be clean until evening. Whoever touches anything that she sits on will wash their clothes, and take a bath, and won’t be clean until evening. If it’s on the bed, or on anything she sits on, when they touch it, they won’t be clean until evening. If any man has sex with her during her period, he’ll be unhealthy seven days; and every bed which he sleeps on will be unhealthy.

[25-28] If a woman has a discharge of blood that last for many days, but isn’t her period, or if she has a discharge that lasts longer than the time of her normal period, as long as the discharge lasts, she’ll be unhealthy as in the days of her period. Every bed she sleeps on as long as her discharge lasts, will be to her as the bed of her period, and everything she sits on will be unhealthy, as in her period. Whoever touches these things will be unhealthy, and will wash their clothes, and take a bath, and won’t be clean until evening. But if she’s through with her period, then after seven days, she’ll be clean.

[29-33] On the eighth day she’ll take two doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the Meeting Place. The priest will offer the first for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest will cover her sins for her before Yahweh for being unhealthy on her period. So separate the children of Israel when they’re unhealthy, so they won’t die when they’re unhealthy, when they make my place of worship unhealthy that’s with them. This is the law of whoever has a discharge, and of whoever has a release of semen that makes them unhealthy; and of a woman, who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of whoever has sex with a woman, who is on her period.