World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Leviticus 14
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1 spoke to , saying, "This shall be of the in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest, and the priest shall go out of the camp. him. Behold, if the plague of is healed in the , then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and . The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an over running water. As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the , and shall dip them and the living bird in of the bird that was killed over the running water. He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the seven times, and shall , and shall let the living bird go into the open field. "He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall outside his tent seven days. It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean. "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs , one ewe lamb a year old , three tenths of an ephah of for a , mixed with oil, and one log of oil. The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before , at the door of the . "The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a , with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave before . He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the and the , in the place of ; for as the is the priest's, so is the . It is most . The priest shall take some of of the , and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his , and on the big toe of his right foot. The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before . The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his , and on the big toe of his right foot, upon of the . The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before . "The priest shall offer the , and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the ; then the priest shall offer the and the on the . The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean. "If he is , and can't afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth of an ephah of mixed with oil for a , and a log of oil; and two , or two , such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a , and the other a . "On the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the door of the , before . The priest shall take of the , and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave before . He shall kill of the . The priest shall take some of of the and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his , and on the big toe of his right foot. 26The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand; 27and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before . 28Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his , and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of of the . The rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before . He shall offer one of the , or of the , which ever he is able to afford, of the kind he is able to afford, the one for a , and the other for a , with the . The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before ." This is for him in whom is the plague of , who is not able to afford the for his cleansing. 33 spoke to and to , saying, "When you have come into the land of , which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession, then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.' The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to , that all that is in the house not be made . Afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house. He shall ; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall, then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house, then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an place outside of the city. He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an place. They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house. "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered, then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is . He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an place. "Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be . He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes. "If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and . 50He shall kill one of the birds in an over running water. He shall take the cedar wood, the , the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. 52He shall cleanse the house with of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the , and with the scarlet; but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean." This is for any plague of , and for an itch, and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house, and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot; to teach when it is , and when it is clean. This is of .
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The world at this moment · Egypt and Sinai, 1450 BC to 1200 BC ›
Israel in and then out of Egypt, at a period when Egypt was an imperial power that also controlled Canaan. The nation is formed as a people with a law before it has any land.
- Egypt
- The New Kingdom at its imperial peak, with a professional army, a chariot corps, and control reaching up through Canaan. Ramesses II reigns for sixty-six years and covers the country in monuments to himself. Egyptian power in this period is the reason Canaan is garrisoned rather than free.
- The Hittites
- The other superpower, in what is now Turkey, and Egypt's rival for the Levant. The two fight the largest chariot battle of the ancient world at Kadesh, then sign a treaty whose text survives from both sides. Hittite treaty form, with its historical prologue, stipulations, witnesses, blessings, and curses, is the shape the Sinai covenant takes, which is one of the stronger arguments for the antiquity of that material.
- The Aegean
- Mycenaean Greece: warrior kings in stone citadels at Mycenae and Pylos, keeping palace accounts in Linear B. The world of the Trojan War stories, whatever lies behind them.
- Further afield
- The Shang dynasty in China is casting extraordinary bronzes and writing questions to its ancestors on ox bones. In Mesoamerica the Olmec are beginning the first civilisation of the Americas.