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# Leviticus 14

Leviticus 14 is chapter 14 of 27 in the Book of Leviticus. Here are all 57 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The rites of sacrifices in cleansing the leprosy. Leprosy in houses.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Leviticus 14 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2. This is the rite for a leper, when he is to be cleansed. He shall be brought to the priest,
3. who, departing from the camp, when he has found the leprosy to be cleansed,
4. shall instruct him who is to be purified to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and vermillion, and hyssop.
5. And he shall order that one of the sparrows be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters.
6. But the other living one, with the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, he shall dip in the blood of the immolated sparrow.
7. And he shall sprinkle him who is to be cleansed seven times, so that he may be purified justly. And he shall release the living sparrow, so that it may fly away into the field.
8. And when the man will have washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair from his body, and he shall be washed with water. And having been purified, he shall enter into the camp, only to this extent: that he may remain outside his own tent for seven days.
9. And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows, as well as the hair of his entire body. And having washed his clothes again, and his body,
10. on the eighth day, he shall take two immaculate lambs, and a one-year-old female sheep without blemish, and three tenths of fine wheat flour, which has been sprinkled with oil, as a sacrifice, and separately, one twelfth hin of oil.
11. And when the priest purifying the man has presented him and all these things in the sight of the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony,
12. he shall take a lamb and offer it for transgression, with the twelfth hin of oil. And having offered all these before the Lord,
13. he shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is usually immolated with the holocaust, that is, in the holy place. For just as with the one for sin, so also the victim for transgression belongs to the priest. It is the Holy of holies.
14. And taking some of the blood of the victim, which was immolated for transgression, the priest shall place it upon the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and likewise the foot.
15. And he shall send some of the twelfth hin of oil into his own left hand,
16. and he shall dip his right finger in it, and he shall sprinkle it in the sight of the Lord seven times.
17. But the oil which remains in his left hand, he shall pour over the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand as well as the foot, and upon the blood which was shed for transgression,
18. and upon his head.
19. And he shall pray for him in the sight of the Lord, and he shall accomplish the sacrifice on behalf of sin. Then he shall immolate the holocaust,
20. and place it upon the altar with its libations, and the man will be duly cleansed.
21. But if he is poor, and his hand is not able to find what has been said, he shall take a lamb as an offering for transgression, so that the priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of fine wheat flour sprinkled with oil, as a sacrifice, and a twelfth hin of oil,
22. and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and the other as a holocaust.
23. And he shall offer them on the eighth day of his purification to the priest at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony in the sight of the Lord.
24. And he, receiving the lamb for transgression, and the twelfth hin of oil, shall lift them up together.
25. And when the lamb has been immolated, he shall place some of its blood upon the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, as well as the foot.
26. Yet truly, he shall send part of the oil into his own left hand,
27. and dipping the finger of his right hand in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord.
28. And he shall touch the tip of the right ear of him who is being cleansed, and the thumb of his right hand, as well as the foot, in the place of the blood which was shed for transgression.
29. But the remaining part of the oil which is in his left hand, he shall send upon the head of the one being purified, to appease the Lord on his behalf.
30. And he shall offer a turtledove or a young pigeon,
31. one for transgression, and the other as a holocaust, with their libations.
32. This is the sacrifice of a leper, who is not able to obtain all of the things concerning his cleansing.
33. And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
34. When you will have entered into the land of Canaan, which I will give to you as a possession, if there is the mark of leprosy in a building,
35. he whose house it is shall go and report to the priest, saying: “It seems to me that the mark of leprosy is in my house.”
36. And he shall instruct them to carry all things out of the house, before he would enter it and see whether it is leprosy, lest all that is in the house become unclean. And after this, he shall enter to examine the leprosy of the house.
37. And when he will have seen in its walls something like little hollows, deformed with paleness or redness, and lower than the remaining surface,
38. he shall exit by the door of the house, and immediately close it up for seven days.
39. And returning on the seventh day, he shall examine it. If he finds that the leprosy has spread,
40. he shall order the stones in which the leprosy is, to be dug out and cast outside the city in an unclean place,
41. and that the house be scraped on the inside all around, and that the dust of the scrapings be scattered outside the city in an unclean place,
42. and that other stones be put back, in place of those which had been taken away, and that the house be plastered with other mortar.
43. But if, after the stones have been dug out, and the dust wiped away, and it is plastered with other clay,
44. the priest, upon entering, will have seen that the leprosy has returned, and that the walls are sprinkled with spots, then it is a persistent leprosy and the house is unclean.
45. And so they shall promptly destroy it, and shall cast its stones and timber, and also all the dust, outside the town in an unclean place.
46. Whoever enters into the house when it is closed up shall be unclean until evening.
47. And whoever will have slept in it, or eaten anything, shall wash his clothes.
48. But if the priest, upon entering, will have seen that the leprosy has not spread in the house, after it had been newly plastered, he shall purify it, restoring it to health.
49. And for its purification, he shall take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and vermillion, as well as hyssop,
50. and, having immolated one sparrow in an earthen vessel over living waters,
51. he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living sparrow, and he shall dip all these in the blood of the immolated sparrow, and also in the living water, and he shall sprinkle the house seven times.
52. And he shall purify it as much with the blood of the sparrow as with the living water, and with the living sparrow, and the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the vermillion.
53. And when he has released the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house, and it shall be justly cleansed.
54. This is the law of every kind of leprosy and plague:
55. of the leprosy of garments and houses,
56. of scars and erupting pustules, of a shining spot, when the appearance is also variegated,
57. so that it can be known at what time a thing is clean or unclean.

## Leviticus 14 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
2. Hic est ritus leprosi, quando mundandus est. Adducetur ad sacerdotem:
3. qui egressus de castris, cum invenerit lepram esse mundatam,
4. præcipiet ei, qui purificatur, ut offerat duos passeres vivos pro se, quibus vesci licitum est, et lignum cedrinum, vermiculumque et hyssopum.
5. Et unum ex passeribus immolari jubebit in vase fictili super aquas viventes:
6. alium autem vivum cum ligno cedrino, et cocco et hyssopo, tinget in sanguine passeris immolati,
7. quo asperget illum, qui mundandus est, septies, ut jure purgetur: et dimittet passerem vivum, ut in agrum avolet.
8. Cumque laverit homo vestimenta sua, radet omnes pilos corporis, et lavabitur aqua: purificatusque ingredietur castra, ita dumtaxat ut maneat extra tabernaculum suum septem diebus,
9. et die septimo radet capillos capitis, barbamque et supercilia, ac totius corporis pilos. Et lotis rursum vestibus et corpore,
10. die octavo assumet duos agnos immaculatos, et ovem anniculam absque macula, et tres decimas similæ in sacrificium, quæ conspersa sit oleo, et seorsum olei sextarium.
11. Cumque sacerdos purificans hominem, statuerit eum, et hæc omnia coram Domino in ostio tabernaculi testimonii,
12. tollet agnum et offeret eum pro delicto, oleique sextarium: et oblatis ante Dominum omnibus,
13. immolabit agnum, ubi solet immolari hostia pro peccato, et holocaustum, id est, in loco sancto. Sicut enim pro peccato, ita et pro delicto ad sacerdotem pertinet hostia: Sancta sanctorum est.
14. Assumensque sacerdos de sanguine hostiæ, quæ immolata est pro delicto, ponet super extremum auriculæ dextræ ejus qui mundatur, et super pollices manus dextræ et pedis:
15. et de olei sextario mittet in manum suam sinistram,
16. tingetque digitum dextrum in eo, et asperget coram Domino septies.
17. Quod autem reliquum est olei in læva manu, fundet super extremum auriculæ dextræ ejus qui mundatur, et super pollices manus ac pedis dextri, et super sanguinem qui effusus est pro delicto,
18. et super caput ejus.
19. Rogabitque pro eo coram Domino, et faciet sacrificium pro peccato: tunc immolabit holocaustum,
20. et ponet illud in altari cum libamentis suis, et homo rite mundabitur.
21. Quod si pauper est, et non potest manus ejus invenire quæ dicta sunt pro delicto, assumet agnum ad oblationem, ut roget pro eo sacerdos, decimamque partem similæ conspersæ oleo in sacrificium, et olei sextarium,
22. duosque turtures sive duos pullos columbæ, quorum unus sit pro peccato, et alter in holocaustum:
23. offeretque ea die octavo purificationis suæ sacerdoti, ad ostium tabernaculi testimonii coram Domino.
24. Qui suscipiens agnum pro delicto et sextarium olei, levabit simul:
25. immolatoque agno, de sanguine ejus ponet super extremum auriculæ dextræ illius qui mundatur, et super pollices manus ejus ac pedis dextri:
26. olei vero partem mittet in manum suam sinistram,
27. in quo tingens digitum dextræ manus asperget septies coram Domino:
28. tangetque extremum dextræ auriculæ illius qui mundatur, et pollices manus ac pedis dextri, in loco sanguinis qui effusus est pro delicto:
29. reliquam autem partem olei, quæ est in sinistra manu, mittet super caput purificati, ut placet pro eo Dominum:
30. et turturem sive pullum columbæ offeret,
31. unum pro delicto, et alterum in holocaustum cum libamentis suis.
32. Hoc est sacrificium leprosi, qui habere non potest omnia in emundationem sui.
33. Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron, dicens:
34. Cum ingressi fueritis terram Chanaan, quam ego dabo vobis in possessionem, si fuerit plaga lepræ in ædibus,
35. ibit cujus est domus, nuntians sacerdoti, et dicet: Quasi plaga lepræ videtur mihi esse in domo mea.
36. At ille præcipiet ut efferant universa de domo, priusquam ingrediatur eam, et videat utrum leprosa sit, ne immunda fiant omnia quæ in domo sunt. Intrabitque postea ut consideret lepram domus:
37. et cum viderit in parietibus illius quasi valliculas pallore sive rubore deformes, et humiliores superficie reliqua,
38. egredietur ostium domus, et statim claudet illam septem diebus.
39. Reversusque die septimo, considerabit eam: si invenerit crevisse lepram,
40. jubebit erui lapides in quibus lepra est, et projici eos extra civitatem in locum immundum:
41. domum autem ipsam radi intrinsecus per circuitum, et spargi pulverem rasuræ extra urbem in locum immundum,
42. lapidesque alios reponi pro his qui ablati fuerint, et luto alio liniri domum.
43. Sin autem postquam eruti sunt lapides, et pulvis erasus, et alia terra lita,
44. ingressus sacerdos viderit reversam lepram, et parietes respersos maculis, lepra est perseverans, et immunda domus:
45. quam statim destruent, et lapides ejus ac ligna, atque universum pulverem projicient extra oppidum in locum immundum.
46. Qui intraverit domum quando clausa est, immundus erit usque ad vesperum:
47. et qui dormierit in ea, et comederit quippiam, lavabit vestimenta sua.
48. Quod si introiens sacerdos viderit lepram non crevisse in domo, postquam denuo lita fuerit, purificabit eam reddita sanitate:
49. et in purificationem ejus sumet duos passeres, lignumque cedrinum, et vermiculum atque hyssopum:
50. et immolato uno passere in vase fictili super aquas vivas,
51. tollet lignum cedrinum, et hyssopum, et coccum, et passerem vivum, et tinget omnia in sanguine passeris immolati, atque in aquis viventibus, et asperget domum septies,
52. purificabitque eam tam in sanguine passeris quam in aquis viventibus, et in passere vivo, lignoque cedrino et hyssopo atque vermiculo.
53. Cumque dimiserit passerem avolare in agrum libere, orabit pro domo, et jure mundabitur.
54. Ista est lex omnis lepræ et percussuræ,
55. lepræ vestium et domorum,
56. cicatricis et erumpentium papularum, lucentis maculæ, et in varias species, coloribus immutatis,
57. ut possit sciri quo tempore mundum quid, vel immundum sit.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 5: “Living waters” … That is, waters taken from a spring, brook, or river.
- Verse 10: Heb. log: a measure of liquids, which was the twelfth part of a hin; and held about as much as six eggs.
- Verse 14: These ceremonies used in the cleansing of a leper, were mysterious and very significative. The sprinkling seven times with the blood of the little bird, the washing himself and his clothes, the shaving his hair and his beard, signify the means which are to be used in the reconciliation of a sinner, and the steps by which he is to return to God, viz., by the repeated application of the blood of Christ: the washing his conscience with the waters of compunction: and retrenching all vanities and superfluities, by employing all that is over and above what is necessary in alms deeds. The sin offering, and the holocaust or burnt offering, which he was to offer at his cleansing, signify the sacrifice of a contrite and humble heart, and that of adoration in spirit and truth, with gratitude and thankfulness, for the forgiveness of sins, with which we are ever to appear before the Almighty. The touching the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the great toe of the right foot, first with the blood of the victim, and then with the remainder of the oil, which had been sprinkled seven times before the Lord, signify the application of the blood of Christ, and the unction of the sevenfold grace of the Holy Ghost; to the sinner's right ear, that he may duly hearken to and obey the law of God; and to his right hand and foot, that the works of his hands, and all the steps or affections of his soul, signified by the feet, may be rightly directed to God.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).