“The person to be cleansed must wash their clothes,(A) shave off all their hair and bathe with water;(B) then they will be ceremonially clean.(C) After this they may come into the camp,(D) but they must stay outside their tent for seven days. On the seventh day(E) they must shave off all their hair;(F) they must shave their head, their beard, their eyebrows and the rest of their hair. They must wash their clothes and bathe themselves with water, and they will be clean.(G)

10 “On the eighth day(H) they must bring two male lambs and one ewe lamb(I) a year old, each without defect, along with three-tenths of an ephah[a](J) of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering,(K) and one log[b] of oil.(L) 11 The priest who pronounces them clean shall present(M) both the one to be cleansed and their offerings before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting.(N)

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 14:10 That is, probably about 11 pounds or about 5 kilograms
  2. Leviticus 14:10 That is, about 1/3 quart or about 0.3 liter; also in verses 12, 15, 21 and 24

And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.

But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.

11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

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