Wayyiqra (Leviticus)

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Lev 12:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 12:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘When a woman has
conceived, and has given birth to a male child, then she shall be unclean
seven days, as in the days of her monthly separation she is unclean.
Lev 12:3 ‘And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin is circumcised.
Lev 12:4 ‘And she remains in the blood of her cleansing thirty-three days.
She does not touch whatever is set-apart, and she does not come into the set-
apart place until the days of her cleansing are completed.
Lev 12:5 ‘But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean
for two weeks, as in her monthly separation, and she remains in the blood of
her cleansing for sixty-six days.
Lev 12:6 ‘And when the days of her cleansing are completed, for a son or
for a daughter, she brings to the priest a lamb a year old, as a burnt offering,
and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a sin offering, to the door of the Tent of
Meeting.
Lev 12:7 ‘And he shall bring it before יהוה, and make atonement for her, and
she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the Torah for her
who has given birth to a male or a female.
Lev 12:8 ‘And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two
turtledoves or two young pigeons, one as a burnt offering and the other as a
sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be
clean.’ ”

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Lev 13:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,
Lev 13:2 “When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling, a scab, or a
bright spot, and it shall become on the skin of his body like a leprous
infection, then he shall be brought to Aharon the priest or to one of his sons
the priests.
Lev 13:3 “And the priest shall look at the infection on the skin of the body.
And if the hair on the infection has turned white, and the infection appears to
be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous infection. And the priest
shall look at him, and pronounce him unclean.
Lev 13:4 “But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body, and does not
appear to be deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the
priest shall shut up the infected one seven days.
Lev 13:5 “And the priest shall look at him on the seventh day and see, if the
infection appears to be as it was, and the infection has not spread on the skin,
then the priest shall shut him up another seven days.
Lev 13:6 “And the priest shall look at him again on the seventh day and see,
if the infection has darkened, and the infection has not spread on the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab, and he shall wash his
garments and be clean.
Lev 13:7 “But if the scab spreads further over the skin, after he has been
seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again.
Lev 13:8 “And the priest shall look and see, if the scab has spread on the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is leprosy.
Lev 13:9 “When the infection of leprosy is on a man, then he shall be
brought to the priest.
Lev 13:10 “And the priest shall look and see, if the swelling on the skin is
white, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a spot of raw flesh in the
swelling,
Lev 13:11 it is an old leprosy on the skin of his body, and the priest shall
pronounce him unclean. He does not shut him up, for he is unclean.
Lev 13:12 “And if leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy shall
cover all the skin of the infected one, from his head to his foot, wherever the
priest looks,
Lev 13:13 then the priest shall look and see, if the leprosy has covered all
his body, he shall pronounce the infected one clean. It has all turned white, he
is clean.
Lev 13:14 “But the day raw flesh appears on him, he is unclean.
Lev 13:15 “And the priest shall look at the raw flesh and pronounce him to
be unclean – the raw flesh is unclean, it is leprosy.
Lev 13:16 “Or when the raw flesh changes and turns white again, he shall
come to the priest.
Lev 13:17 “And the priest shall look at him and see, if the infection has
turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the infected one clean, he is
clean.
Lev 13:18 “And when the body has a boil in the skin, and it is healed,
Lev 13:19 and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a
bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be seen by the priest.
Lev 13:20 “And the priest shall look and see, if it appears deeper than the
skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it
is a leprous infection which has broken out of the boil.
Lev 13:21 “But if the priest looks at it and sees no white hairs in it, and it is
not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven
days;
Lev 13:22 and if it has spread further over the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean, it is a leprous infection.
Lev 13:23 “But if the bright spot stays in its place, it has not spread, it is the
scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Lev 13:24 “Or when the body receives a burn on its skin by fire, and the raw
flesh of the burn shall become a bright spot, reddish-white or white,
Lev 13:25 then the priest shall look at it and see, if the hair of the bright spot
has turned white, and it appears deeper than the skin, it is leprosy broken out
in the burn. And the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a leprous
infection.
Lev 13:26 “But if the priest looks at it and sees there are no white hairs in
the bright spot, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest
shall shut him up seven days.
Lev 13:27 “And the priest shall look at him on the seventh day. If it spreads
further over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a
leprous infection.
Lev 13:28 “But if the bright spot stays in its place, and has not spread on the
skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn. And the priest shall
pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn.
Lev 13:29 “And when a man, or a woman, has an infection on the head or in
the beard,
Lev 13:30 then the priest shall look at the infection and see, if it appears
deeper than the skin, and there is thin yellow hair in it, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean, it is an eruption, a leprosy of the head or beard.
Lev 13:31 “But when the priest looks at the infection of the eruption and
sees that it does not appear deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in
it, then the priest shall shut up the one with the infection of the eruption seven
days.
Lev 13:32 “And on the seventh day the priest shall look at the infection and
see, if the eruption has not spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the
eruption does not appear deeper than the skin,
Lev 13:33 then he shall shave himself, but the eruption he does not shave.
And the priest shall shut up the one with the eruption another seven days.
Lev 13:34 “And on the seventh day the priest shall look at the eruption and
see, if the eruption has not spread over the skin, and does not appear deeper
than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash
his garments, and he shall be clean.
Lev 13:35 “But if the eruption spreads further over the skin after his
cleansing,
Lev 13:36 then the priest shall look at him and see, if the eruption has spread
over the skin, the priest need not seek for yellow hair, he is unclean.
Lev 13:37 “But if the eruption appears to have stayed, and there is black
hair grown up in it, the eruption has healed. He is clean, and the priest shall
pronounce him clean.
Lev 13:38 “And when a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of the
body, white bright spots,
Lev 13:39 then the priest shall look and see, if the bright spots on the skin of
the body are dull white, it is a white spot that grows on the skin, he is clean.
Lev 13:40 “And when a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald, he is
clean.
Lev 13:41 “And if the hair has fallen from his forehead, he is bald on the
forehead, he is clean.
Lev 13:42 “And when there is on the bald head or bald forehead a reddish-
white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald
forehead.
Lev 13:43 “And the priest shall look at it and see, if the swelling of the
infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, as the
appearance of leprosy on the skin of the body,
Lev 13:44 he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him
unclean, without fail, his infection is on his head.
Lev 13:45 “As for the leper who has the infection, his garments are torn, and
his head is uncovered, and he has to cover his upper lip and cry, ‘Unclean!
Unclean!’
Lev 13:46 “He is unclean – all the days he has the infection he is unclean.
He is unclean, and he dwells alone, his dwelling place is outside the camp.
Lev 13:47 “And when a garment has an infection of leprosy in it, in a
woollen garment or in a linen garment,
Lev 13:48 or in the warp or in the weft of linen or wool, or in leather or in
any leather-work,
Lev 13:49 and the infection shall be greenish or reddish in the garment or in
the leather, or in the warp or in the weft, or in any leather object, it is an
infection of leprosy and shall be shown to the priest.
Lev 13:50 “And the priest shall look at the infection and shut up the infected
one seven days.
Lev 13:51 “And he shall look at the infection on the seventh day. And when
the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp or in the weft, or in the
leather or any leather-work, the infection is an active leprosy, it is unclean.
Lev 13:52 “And he shall burn that garment, or the warp or the weft, in wool
or in linen, or any leather object in which the infection is, for it is an active
leprosy. It is burned with fire.
Lev 13:53 “But if the priest looks and sees that the infection has not spread
in the garment, or in the warp or in the weft, or in any leather object,
Lev 13:54 then the priest shall give command, and they shall wash that in
which the infection is. And he shall shut it up another seven days.
Lev 13:55 “And the priest shall look at the infection after it has been washed
and see, if the infection has not changed its appearance, though the infection
has not spread, it is unclean, and burn it in the fire – it is eaten away, in its
inside or outside.
Lev 13:56 “And if the priest shall look and see that the infection has faded
after washing it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the warp, or
out of the weft, or out of the leather.
Lev 13:57 “And if it is still seen in the garment, or in the warp or in the
weft, or in any leather object, it is a spreading infection. Burn it with fire,
that in which the infection is.
Lev 13:58 “And if you wash the garment, or the warp or the weft, or any
leather object, if the infection has disappeared from it, then it shall be
washed a second time, and shall be clean.
Lev 13:59 “This is the Torah of the infection of leprosy in a garment of wool
or linen, or in the warp or in the weft, or in any leather object, to pronounce
it clean or to pronounce it unclean.”

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Lev 14:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 14:2 “This shall be the Torah of the leper for the day of his cleansing:
He shall be brought to the priest,
Lev 14:3 and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look
and see, if the leprosy is healed in the leper,
Lev 14:4 then the priest shall command, and he shall take for him who is to
be cleansed two live and clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop.
Lev 14:5 “And the priest shall command, and he shall kill one of the birds in
an earthen vessel over running water.
Lev 14:6 “Let him take the live bird and the cedar wood and the scarlet and
the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was
killed over the running water.
Lev 14:7 “And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed
from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird
loose in the open field.
Lev 14:8 “And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his garments, and shall
shave off all his hair and wash himself in water, and shall be clean. Then
after that he comes into the camp, but shall stay outside his tent seven days.
Lev 14:9 “And on the seventh day it shall be that he shaves all the hair off
his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shaves off. And
he shall wash his garments and wash his body in water, and shall be clean.
Lev 14:10 “And on the eighth day he takes two male lambs, perfect ones,
and one ewe lamb a year old, a perfect one, and three-tenths of an ĕphah of
fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one log of oil.
Lev 14:11 “And the priest who is cleansing shall present the man who is to
be cleansed, with these offerings, before יהוה, at the door of the Tent of
Meeting.
Lev 14:12 “And the priest shall take one male lamb and bring it as a guilt
offering, and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before יהוה.
Lev 14:13 “And he shall slaughter the lamb in the place where he slaughters
the sin offering and the burnt offering, in a set-apart place. For the guilt
offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest. It is most set-apart.
Lev 14:14 “And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering,
and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be
cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right
foot.
Lev 14:15 “And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into
the palm of his own left hand.
Lev 14:16 “And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his
left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times
.יהוה before
Lev 14:17 “And of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest puts some on the
tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right
hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering.
Lev 14:18 “And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he puts on the
head of him who is to be cleansed. And the priest shall make atonement for
him before יהוה.
Lev 14:19 “And the priest shall make the sin offering, and make atonement
for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterwards he
slaughters the burnt offering.
Lev 14:20 “And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering
on the altar. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be
clean.
Lev 14:21 “But if he is poor and is unable to afford it, then he shall take one
male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and
one-tenth of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a
log of oil,
Lev 14:22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to
afford, and one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
Lev 14:23 “And he shall bring them to the priest on the eighth day for his
cleansing, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before יהוה.
Lev 14:24 “And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log
of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before יהוה.
Lev 14:25 “And he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering, and the
priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of
the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand,
and on the big toe of his right foot.
Lev 14:26 “Then the priest pours some of the oil into the palm of his own
left hand.
Lev 14:27 “And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil
that is in his left hand seven times before יהוה.
Lev 14:28 “And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the
tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right
hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt
offering.
Lev 14:29 “And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he puts on the
head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before יהוה.
Lev 14:30 “And he shall prepare one of the turtledoves or young pigeons,
such as he is able to afford,
Lev 14:31 that which he is able to afford, the one as a sin offering and the
other as a burnt offering, with the grain offering. And the priest shall make
atonement for him who is to be cleansed before יהוה.
Lev 14:32 “This is the Torah for one who had an infection of leprosy, who is
unable to afford for his cleansing.”
Lev 14:33 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,
Lev 14:34 “When you come into the land of Kena‛an, which I am giving you
as a possession, and I put a plague of leprosy in a house in the land of your
possession,
Lev 14:35 then shall the one who owns the house come and inform the
priest, saying, ‘It seems to me that there is some plague in the house.’
Lev 14:36 “And the priest shall command, and they shall empty the house,
before the priest goes in to look at the plague, so that all that is in the house is
not made unclean. And after that the priest goes in to look at the house.
Lev 14:37 “And he shall look at the plague and see, if the plague is on the
walls of the house with sunken places, greenish or reddish, which appear to
be deep in the wall,
Lev 14:38 then the priest shall go out of the house, to the door of the house,
and shut up the house seven days.
Lev 14:39 “And the priest shall come again on the seventh day and look and
see, if the plague has spread on the walls of the house,
Lev 14:40 then the priest shall command, and they shall remove the stones
with the plague in them, and they shall throw them outside the city, into an
unclean place,
Lev 14:41 while he lets the house be scraped inside, all around, and the dust
that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.
Lev 14:42 “And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of
those stones, and take other mortar and plaster the house.
Lev 14:43 “And if the plague comes back and breaks out in the house, after
he has removed the stones, after he has scraped the house, and after it is
plastered,
Lev 14:44 then the priest shall come and look and see, if the plague has
spread in the house, it is an active leprosy in the house, it is unclean.
Lev 14:45 “And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber,
and all the plaster of the house, and he shall bring them outside the city to an
unclean place.
Lev 14:46 “And he who goes into the house, all the days while it is shut up,
becomes unclean until evening.
Lev 14:47 “And he who lies down in the house has to wash his garments,
and he who eats in the house has to wash his garments.
Lev 14:48 “However, if the priest indeed comes in and looks at it and sees
that the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then
the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
Lev 14:49 “And to cleanse the house, he shall take two birds, and cedar
wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
Lev 14:50 “And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over
running water,
Lev 14:51 and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet,
and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the
running water, and shall sprinkle the house seven times.
Lev 14:52 “He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and
the running water and the live bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the
hyssop, and with the scarlet,
Lev 14:53 and he shall let the live bird loose outside the city in the open
field, and shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
Lev 14:54 “This is the Torah for any infection of leprosy, and eruption,
Lev 14:55 and for leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
Lev 14:56 and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot,
Lev 14:57 to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the Torah
of leprosy.”

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Lev 15:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,
Lev 15:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When any man
has a discharge from his flesh, his discharge is unclean.
Lev 15:3 ‘And this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge; whether his
flesh runs with his discharge, or his flesh is stopped up by his discharge, it is
his uncleanness.
Lev 15:4 ‘Any bed becomes unclean on which he who has the discharge
lies, and any object on which he sits becomes unclean.
Lev 15:5 ‘And anyone who touches his bed has to wash his garments, and
shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:6 ‘And he who sits on any object on which he who has the discharge
sat, has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until
evening.
Lev 15:7 ‘And he who touches the flesh of him who has the discharge has to
wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and shall be unclean until
evening.
Lev 15:8 ‘And when he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean,
then he shall wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean
until evening.
Lev 15:9 ‘Any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides becomes
unclean.
Lev 15:10 ‘And whoever touches any of that which was under him is
unclean until evening. And he who is carrying them up has to wash his
garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:11 ‘And anyone whom he who has the discharge touches without
rinsing his hands in water, shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and be
unclean until evening.
Lev 15:12 ‘And the earthen vessel which he who has the discharge touches
has to be broken, and every wooden vessel has to be rinsed in water.
Lev 15:13 ‘And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge,
then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and shall wash
his garments, and shall bathe his flesh in running water, and be clean.
Lev 15:14 ‘And on the eighth day he takes for himself two turtledoves or
two young pigeons, and shall come before יהוה, to the door of the Tent of
Meeting, and shall give them to the priest.
Lev 15:15 ‘And the priest shall prepare them, the one as a sin offering and
the other as a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him
before יהוה because of his discharge.
Lev 15:16 ‘And when a man has an emission of semen, then he shall wash
all his flesh in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:17 ‘And any garment and any leather on which there is semen, shall
also be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:18 ‘And when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of
semen, they both shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:19 ‘And when a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her
flesh is blood, she has to be in her separation for seven days. And whoever
touches her is unclean until evening.
Lev 15:20 ‘And whatever she lies on during her separation is unclean. And
whatever she sits on is unclean.
Lev 15:21 ‘And anyone who touches her bed has to wash his garments, and
shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:22 ‘And whoever touches any object that she sat on has to wash his
garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:23 ‘And if it is on the bed or on any object on which she sits, when
he touches it, he is unclean until evening.
Lev 15:24 ‘And if any man lies with her at all, and her monthly flow is on
him, he shall be unclean seven days. And any bed he lies on is unclean.
Lev 15:25 ‘And when a woman has a discharge of blood for many days,
other than at the time of her monthly separation, or when she discharges
beyond her usual time of monthly separation, all the days of her unclean
discharge shall be as the days of her monthly separation. She is unclean.
Lev 15:26 ‘Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge is to her
as the bed of her monthly separation. And whatever she sits on is unclean, as
the uncleanness of her monthly separation.
Lev 15:27 ‘And anyone who touches them is unclean, and shall wash his
garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:28 ‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count for
herself seven days, and after that she is clean.
Lev 15:29 ‘And on the eighth day she takes for herself two turtledoves or
two young pigeons, and shall bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent
of Meeting.
Lev 15:30 ‘And the priest shall prepare the one as a sin offering and the
other as a burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before
יהוה for the discharge of her uncleanness.
Lev 15:31 ‘Thus you shall separate the children of Yisra’ĕl from their
uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they defile My Dwelling
Place which is in their midst.
Lev 15:32 ‘This is the Torah for one who has a discharge, and for him who
emits semen and is unclean thereby,
Lev 15:33 and for her who is sick in her monthly separation, and for one
who has a discharge, either man or woman, and for him who lies with an
unclean woman.’ ”