Leviticus 14:1-20

Normal Law of Cleansing after the disease has disappeared. The patient brings to the priest two birds, and he is sprinkled with the blood of one of them, killed in an earthenware (and therefore cheap) bowl, for mixing the blood, over running (and therefore pure) water, along with cedar wood (perhaps because of its supposed healing properties), scarlet wool, and hyssop (cf. Numbers 19:6 *). The other bird carries away the pollution. He then removes his hair and washes himself and his clothes (cf. Deuteronomy 21:12; Numbers 6:18 *). In the second part of the rite, next day, the semi-magical elements (except perhaps in Leviticus 14:14; Leviticus 14:17) are not found. The guilt offering, a he-lamb, along with meal and oil, is presented, and with the blood and the oil the extremities of the offerer are touched; then follow the sin offering and the burnt offering, with the meal offering. In Numbers 15:4, only ⅟? 10 of an ephah is mentioned as a meal offering. ⅟? 10 of an ephah is equivalent to some 20 pints, and a lô g (of oil) to one pint. The reference to the left hand (Leviticus 14:15) and upon the blood (Leviticus 14:17) show how carefully the ritual is thought out, in order that the whole may be done neatly.