18. He shall put the rest of the oil that is in the palm of his hand on the person's head. In this way he shall perform the ritual of purification.
19. Then the priest shall offer the sin offering and perform the ritual of purification. After that, he shall kill the animal for the burnt offering
20. and offer it with the grain offering on the altar. In this way the priest shall perform the ritual of purification, and the person will be ritually clean.
21. If he is poor and cannot afford any more, he shall bring for his purification only one male lamb as his repayment offering, a special gift to the Lord for the priest. He shall bring only one kilogramme of flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering and a third of a litre of olive oil.
22. He shall also bring two doves or two pigeons, one for the sin offering and one for the burnt offering.
23. On the eighth day of his purification he shall bring them to the priest at the entrance of the Tent.
24. The priest shall take the lamb and the olive oil and present them as a special gift to the Lord for the priest.
25. He shall kill the lamb and take some of the blood and put it on the lobe of the person's right ear, on the thumb of his right-hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
26. The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left-hand
27. and with a finger of his right-hand sprinkle some of it seven times there in the Lord's presence.
28. He shall put some of the oil on the same places as he put the blood: on the lobe of the person's right ear, on the thumb of his right-hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
29. The rest of the oil that is in his palm he shall put on the person's head and in this way perform the ritual of purification.
30. Then he shall offer one of the doves or pigeons
31. as the sin offering and the other as the burnt offering with the grain offering. In this way the priest shall perform the ritual of purification.
32. This is the law for the one who has a dreaded skin disease but who cannot afford the normal offerings required for his purification.
33. The Lord gave Moses and Aaron
34-35. the following regulations about houses affected by spreading mildew. (These were to apply after the people of Israel entered the land of Canaan, which the Lord was going to give them as their possession.) If someone finds that the Lord has sent mildew on his house, then he must go and tell the priest about it.
36. The priest shall order everything to be moved out of the house before he goes to examine the mildew; otherwise everything in the house will be declared unclean. Then he shall go to the house