1. The Lord spoke to Moses,
2. “These are the instructions for making a person clean after a skin disease. He must be taken to the priest.
3. The priest will go outside the camp and examine him. If the person is healed,
4. the priest will order someone to get two living, clean birds, some cedar wood, red yarn, and a hyssop sprig to use for the cleansing.
5. Then the priest will order someone to kill one bird over a clay bowl containing fresh water.
6. The priest will take the living bird, the cedar wood, the red yarn, and the hyssop sprig and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.
7. He will sprinkle the blood seven times on the one to be cleansed and will declare that person clean. Then he will let the living bird fly away into the open country.
8. “The one to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and wash. Then he will be clean. After that he may go into the camp. However, for seven days he will live outside his tent.
9. On the seventh day he must shave off all the hair on his head, his beard, and his eyebrows, and he must wash his clothes and body. Then he will be clean.
10. “On the eighth day he must take two male lambs that have no defects and a one-year-old female lamb that has no defects. He must also take eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering along with a quart of olive oil.
11. The priest who will declare him clean must bring the person and his offerings into the Lord’s presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
12. The priest will take one of the male lambs and the quart of olive oil and present them to the Lord as a guilt offering.
13. He will slaughter the lamb in the holy place where he slaughters the offering for sin and the burnt offering. He will do this because the guilt offering, like the offering for sin, belongs to the priest. It is very holy.