Leviticus 14-15
An Overview of Chapter 14
Laws for cleansing a Leper:
- After it is determined that leprosy is gone then the person should be brought to the priest outside of the camp to be inspected.
- Ingredients of the sacrifice: two clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet string, hyssop.
- One bird is killed over a pot and running water.
- The other bird, with the wood, the string and the hyssop are dipped in the water/blood mixture.
- Then you sprinkle the cleansed man seven times.
- Let the live bird go.
- He takes a bath, and shaves his hair.
- On the 8th day he will bring a guilt offering, a grain offering, a sin offering and a burnt offering.
- If he is too poor for all those offerings a cheaper offering is available.
Laws for cleansing a leprous house:
- Specifically given for when they get houses in the land of Canaan.
- The owner of the house will empty the house and then have it inspected by a priest.
- If it looks like it is not just a surface stain then the house is quarantined for a week.
- After the quarantine the priest will inspect the house again.
- If the mark has spread then the bricks that the mark are on are taken out and trashed and the plaster in the house is replaced. If the mark comes back then the house is demolished and the debris is hauled away.
- If the house is clean then the owner brings a sacrifice similar to the sacrifice for a leper who is cleaned.
An Overview of Chapter 15
Law for cleaning the uncleanness for men who are unclean because of a discharge. His bed and his chair and anywhere he sits down are unclean and he and everyone who touches them must take a bath and wash their clothes. Seven days after it has been determined that he is clean he will bring two birds to the priest for a sin and a burnt offering.
Law for cleaning the uncleanness for mens seminal emissions. He needs to take a bath and clean anything that the emission gets on. The woman he has sex with must also bathe afterwards.
Menstrual laws for women. She is impure for seven days as well as anyone she touches. Everything she sits on or touches is considered unclean and needs to be washed. Seven days after her bleeding stops she is considered clean and on the eighth day she will bring two clean birds for a sin and a burnt offering.
This is all to describe how God kept the Israelites healthy by separating them from their uncleanness.
Reflection
Take the time to thank God for being the first microbiologist!
For Further Study
Leprosy: Matthew 8:1-4, Matthew 10:5-8, Matthew 11:2-6
Laws for cleansing a Leper:
- After it is determined that leprosy is gone then the person should be brought to the priest outside of the camp to be inspected.
- Ingredients of the sacrifice: two clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet string, hyssop.
- One bird is killed over a pot and running water.
- The other bird, with the wood, the string and the hyssop are dipped in the water/blood mixture.
- Then you sprinkle the cleansed man seven times.
- Let the live bird go.
- He takes a bath, and shaves his hair.
- On the 8th day he will bring a guilt offering, a grain offering, a sin offering and a burnt offering.
- If he is too poor for all those offerings a cheaper offering is available.
Laws for cleansing a leprous house:
- Specifically given for when they get houses in the land of Canaan.
- The owner of the house will empty the house and then have it inspected by a priest.
- If it looks like it is not just a surface stain then the house is quarantined for a week.
- After the quarantine the priest will inspect the house again.
- If the mark has spread then the bricks that the mark are on are taken out and trashed and the plaster in the house is replaced. If the mark comes back then the house is demolished and the debris is hauled away.
- If the house is clean then the owner brings a sacrifice similar to the sacrifice for a leper who is cleaned.
An Overview of Chapter 15
Law for cleaning the uncleanness for men who are unclean because of a discharge. His bed and his chair and anywhere he sits down are unclean and he and everyone who touches them must take a bath and wash their clothes. Seven days after it has been determined that he is clean he will bring two birds to the priest for a sin and a burnt offering.
Law for cleaning the uncleanness for mens seminal emissions. He needs to take a bath and clean anything that the emission gets on. The woman he has sex with must also bathe afterwards.
Menstrual laws for women. She is impure for seven days as well as anyone she touches. Everything she sits on or touches is considered unclean and needs to be washed. Seven days after her bleeding stops she is considered clean and on the eighth day she will bring two clean birds for a sin and a burnt offering.
This is all to describe how God kept the Israelites healthy by separating them from their uncleanness.
Reflection
Take the time to thank God for being the first microbiologist!
For Further Study
Leprosy: Matthew 8:1-4, Matthew 10:5-8, Matthew 11:2-6
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