Metzora
Leviticus 14:6-12
6 As for the live fowl, the priest must take it, along with the bundle comprising the cedar stick, the strip of scarlet wool, and the hyssop, and dip the bundle, along with the live fowl, into the blood of the slaughtered fowl that previously dripped onto the spring water. 7 He must then dip his finger into the solution of blood and spring water and sprinkle some of it seven times upon the back of the hand of the person being purified from tzara’at, and he will thereby begin to purify him. The priest must then send away the live fowl into the open field. This fowl is permitted for consumption if it is subsequently caught.
8 The person being purified must then immerse his garments in a mikveh, shave off all the hair on his body with a razor—even those parts of the head that it is normally forbidden to shave—and immerse himself in the water of a mikveh, and he will thus be purified to an additional degree, although not yet completely. After this, he may enter the camp, but he must remain ‘outside his tent,’ i.e., he must not engage in marital relations, for seven days. 9 On the seventh day, he must again shave off all his hair, but this time only that which is similar to the hair on his head, his beard, and his eyebrows—i.e., he must shave off all his hair from the places on his body where there is usually a visible, dense growth of hair. He must then again immerse his garments and immerse his flesh in the water of a mikveh, and thus be purified to an even greater degree, although still not yet completely.
10 On the eighth day, he must take two unblemished male lambs in their first year and one unblemished female lamb in its first year, in order to sacrifice them—one as an ascent-offering, one as a guilt-offering, and one as a sin-offering, respectively—as will be described presently. All three of these offerings require accompanying grain-offerings and wine-libations, even though, as you will be taught later, guilt-offerings and sin-offerings are not generally accompanied by grain-offerings and wine-libations. Therefore, in addition to the three animals, the person being purified must take three separate tenths of an ephah of fine flour, each mixed with a quarter of a hin of olive oil as a grain-offering to accompany each animal sacrifice, plus three quarter-hins of wine for the libations accompanying each animal sacrifice. In addition, he must take one log of olive oil for the purification rites, as will be presently described.
11 The priest who is performing the purification must position the person being purified, together with these things, before God, i.e., outside the entrance of the Courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. The person cannot yet actually enter the Tabernacle precincts, since he is still not completely purified of his defilement. 12 The priest must take one male lamb and bring it into the Courtyard in order to sacrifice it as a guilt-offering, along with the log of oil. Before slaughtering the lamb, he must wave them—the lamb and the oil—as a wave-offering before God.
