1. The Lord told Moses to say to the people:
2-3. After you think you are healed of leprosy, you must ask for a priest to come outside the camp and examine you. And if you are well,
4. he will order someone to bring out two live birds that are acceptable for sacrifice, together with a stick of cedar wood, a piece of red yarn, and a branch from a hyssop plant.
5. The priest will order someone to kill one of the birds over a clay pot of spring water.
6. Then he will dip the other bird, the cedar, the red yarn, and the hyssop in the blood of the dead bird.
7. Next, he will sprinkle you seven times with the blood and say, “You are now clean.” Finally, he will release the bird and let it fly away.
8. After this you must wash your clothes, shave your entire body, and take a bath before you are completely clean. You may move back into camp, but you must not enter your tent for seven days.
9. Then you must once again shave your head, face, and eyebrows, as well as the hair on the rest of your body. Finally, wash your clothes and take a bath, and you will be completely clean.
10. On the eighth day you must bring to the priest two rams and a year-old female lamb that have nothing wrong with them; also bring a third of a litre of olive oil and three kilogrammes of your finest flour mixed with oil.
11. Then the priest will present you and your offerings to me at the entrance to my sacred tent.
12. There he will offer one of the rams, together with the one third of a litre of oil, as a sacrifice to make things right. He will also lift them up to show that they are dedicated to me.
13. This sacrifice is very holy. It belongs to the priest and must be killed in the same place where animals are killed as sacrifices for sins and as sacrifices to please me.
14. The priest will smear some of the blood from this sacrifice on your right ear lobe, some on your right thumb, and some on the big toe of your right foot.
15. He will then pour some of the olive oil into the palm of his left hand,