Purification of Skin Diseases
Purification of Skin Diseases And the Lord said to Moses, “The following instructions are for those seeking ceremonial purification from a skin disease. Those who have been healed must be brought to the priest, who will examine them, at a place outside the camp. If the priest finds that someone has been healed of a serious skin disease, he will perform a purification ceremony, using two live birds that are ceremonially clean, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch. The priest will order that one bird be slaughtered, over a clay pot, filled with fresh water. He will take the live bird, the cedar stick, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop branch, and dip them into the blood, of the bird that was slaughtered, over the fresh water. The priest will then sprinkle the blood, of the dead bird, seven times, on the person being purified, of the skin disease. When the priest has purified the person, he will release the live bird, in the op...