The Lord spoke to Moses regarding the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing, saying that he should be brought to the priest. The priest should go out of the camp and examine him. If the leprosy was healed in the leper, the priest should command that two living and clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop be taken for him. The priest should command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. He should take the living bird, the cedar wood, the scarlet and hyssop and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. The priest should sprinkle it seven times on the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and pronounce him clean. Then he should let the living bird loose in the open field. The one being cleansed should wash his clothes, shave off all his hair and wash himself in water so that he may be clean. Afterwards, he should come into the camp and stay outside his tent for seven days. On the seventh day, he should shave all the hair off his head, his beard and his eyebrows. He should shave off all his hair. He should wash his clothes and wash his body in water and he shall be clean. On the eighth day he should take two male lambs and one ewe lamb of the first year, all without blemish, three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering and one log of oil to the priest. The priest who is making him clean should present the man being cleansed and all of the aforementioned items before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. The priest should take one male lamb and offer it as a trespass offering and the log of oil and wave them as a wave offering before the Lord. He should kill the lamb in the place, a holy place, where he kills the sin and burnt offerings. The sin and the trespass offerings belong to the priest. It is most holy. The priest should take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand and on the big toe of the right foot of the one being cleansed. The priest should take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand, then he should dip his right finger in the oil in the left hand and sprinkle some of it seven times before the Lord. As for the rest of the oil in his left hand, the priest should put some on the tip of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the one being cleansed. The oil was to be put on the blood of the trespass offering that was put on the same body parts. The rest of the oil in the priest’s hand was to be put on the head of the one being cleansed. The priest should then make atonement for him before the Lord. Then the priest should offer the sin offering and make atonement for the one being cleansed. Afterwards, he should kill the burnt offering. The priest should offer the burnt and grain offerings on the altar and make atonement for him and he shall be clean.

If the one being cleansed is poor and cannot afford it, then he should take one male lamb as a trespass offering to be waved to make atonement for him. He should also bring one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, a log of oil, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he can afford. One bird would be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. These should be taken to the priest on the eighth day for his cleansing, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, before the Lord. The priest should take the lamb of the trespass offering and the log of oil and wave them as a wave offering before the Lord. Then he should kill the lamb of the trespass offering and take some of the blood and put it on the tip of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand and the big toe of the right foot of the one being cleansed. The priest should pour some of the oil into his left hand and then sprinkle some of it with his right finger seven times before the Lord. Then he should put some of the oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear, on the thumb of the right hand and on the big toe of the right foot of the one being cleansed. The oil goes on the same body parts where the blood of the trespass offering was placed. The rest of the oil in the priest’s hand was to be placed on the head of the one being cleansed to make atonement for him before the Lord. The priest should offer one of the turtledoves or pigeons, such as he could afford, with the grain offering. One bird would be a sin offering and the other one, a burnt offering. The priest would make atonement for the one being cleansed before the Lord.

This is the law for one who had a leprous sore, who could not afford the usual cleansing.