1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. This will be the Instruction for anyone with skin disease at the time of purification: When it has been reported to the priest,
3. he will go outside the camp. If the priest sees that the person afflicted with skin disease has been healed of the infection,
4. the priest will order that two birds—wild and clean—and cedarwood, crimson yarn, and hyssop be brought for the person who needs purification.
5. The priest will order that one bird be slaughtered over fresh water in a pottery jar.
6. He will then take the other wild bird, along with the cedarwood, crimson yarn, and hyssop, and will dip all of this into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
7. He will sprinkle the person who needs purification from skin disease seven times and declare that they are clean. Then the priest will release the wild bird into the countryside.
8. The person who needs purification will then wash their clothes, shave off all of their hair, and bathe in water; at that point, they will be clean. After that, they can return to the camp, but they must live outside their tent for seven days.
9. On the seventh day, the person must shave off all their hair again: head, beard, and eyebrows—everything. They must wash their clothes and bathe in water; then they will be clean again.