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Welcome to Tazria - She Conceives / Metzora - Infected One - this week’s Torah reading

Prophecy 89, 106, 121;
Leviticus 12:1-15:33;
2 Kings 7:3–20;
Luke 5:12–31, Mark 1:35–45;

Leviticus 12:1-15:33

1 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a woman has conceived seed, and has borne a male, then she shall be unclean seven days; as on the days of her menstrual impurity she shall be unclean.
3 And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
4 And she shall remain in the blood of her cleansing thirty three days; she shall not touch any holy thing, and she shall not go into the sanctuary, until the days of her cleansing are fulfilled.
5 And if she bears a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall continue in the blood of her cleansing sixty six days.
6 And when the days of her cleansing are fulfilled for son or for daughter, she shall bring in a lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt offering, and a young dove or a turtledove for a sin offering, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to the priest.
7 And he shall bring it near before YAHUVEH, and shall atone for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood; this is the law of her who bears, whether a male or a female.
8 And if her hand is not able to find a lamb, then she shall take two turtle doves, or two young doves one for a burnt offering, and one for a sin offering, and the priest shall atone for her; and she shall be cleansed.

*~Leviticus Chapter 13 ~*

1 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2 When a man has a swelling in the skin of his flesh, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it shall become in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought in to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests.
3 And the priest shall look upon the plague in the skin of the flesh; and if the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy, and the priest shall look upon him and shall pronounce him unclean.
4 And if the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall shut up the plague seven days.
5 And the priest shall look on him on the seventh day, and, behold, if the plague stays in its appearance, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven more days.
6 And the priest shall look upon him again the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague has become dim, and the plague has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a scab, and he shall wash his garments and shall be clean.
7 But if the scab spreads greatly in the skin, after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, then he shall be seen a second time by the priest.
8 And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab has spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.
9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought in to the priest.
10 And the priest shall look, and, behold, if a white rising is in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and a living flesh is in the swelling,
11 it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.
12 And if the leprosy breaks out greatly on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one who has the plague, from his head even to his feet, to all that appears to the priest's eyes,
13 then the priest shall look, and behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce the plague-spot clean; it has all turned white; he is clean.
14 And in the day living flesh is seen in him, he is unclean.
15 And the priest shall look on the living flesh and shall pronounce him unclean; the living flesh is unclean; it is leprosy.
16 Or when the living flesh turns back and shall be turned to white, then he shall come in to the priest;
17 and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, the plague has turned to white; the priest shall pronounce the plague-spot clean; he is clean.
18 And when the flesh has a boil in its skin, and it has been healed,
19 and a white swelling has replaced the boil, or a bright white spot, very red, a reddish white, then it shall be seen by the priest.
20 And the priest shall look; and, behold, if its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy; it has broken out in a boil.
21 But if the priest looks at it; and, behold, there is no white hair in it, and it is not lower than the skin, and has become dim, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.
22 And if it spreads greatly in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a plague.
23 And if in its place the bright spot is stayed, it has not spread; it is an inflamed boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
24 Or if there is flesh in which the skin has a hot burning, and the raw flesh of the burning becomes a bright white spot, being very red or white;
25 and the priest shall look on it; and, behold, the hair has turned white in the bright spot, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy. It has broken out in the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy.
26 But if the priest looks on it, and, behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and it is no lower than the other skin, but is somewhat faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.
27 And the priest shall look at him the seventh day. And if it is spread abroad very much in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.
28 And if the bright spot stays in its place, and does not spread in the skin, but is somewhat faded, it is a swelling of the burning; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is a scar of the burning.
29 And if a man or a woman has in them a plague in the head or in the beard,
30 then the priest shall look on the plague. And, behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and a thin shining hair in it, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scab, a leprosy on the head or beard.
31 And when the priest looks on the plague of the scab; and, behold, it is not in sight deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the plagued one with the scab seven days.
32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague. And, behold, if the scab has not spread, and there is no shining hair in it, and the appearance of the scab is not deeper than the skin,
33 then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the scab. And the priest shall shut up the one who has the scab a second seven days.
34 And the priest shall look on the scab on the seventh day. And, behold, if the scab has not spread in the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his garments, and shall be clean.
35 And if the scab has spread further in the skin after his cleansing,
36 and the priest has looked on him; and, behold, the scab has spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the shining, yellow hair; he is unclean.
37 But if in his eyes the scab has stabilized, and black hair has sprung up in it, the scab has been healed; he is clean. And the priest shall pronounce him clean.
38 And when a man or a woman has bright spots, white bright spots, in the skin of their flesh,
39 and the priest has seen it; and, behold there are pale white spots in the skin of their flesh, it is a pale spot springing up in the skin; he is clean.
40 And when a man's head grows bald, he is bald, he is clean.
41 And if his head grows bald from the corner of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald; he is clean.
42 And if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish white plague, it is a leprosy breaking out in the bald head, or in the bald forehead.
43 And the priest shall look on him, and, behold, if the rising of the plague is reddish white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy, in the skin of the flesh,
44 he is a leprous man; he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
45 And the leper who has the plague in him, his garments shall be torn, and his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover the upper lip; and he shall call out, Unclean! Unclean!
46 And the days that the plague shall be in him, he is unclean; he shall live alone, he is unclean; his dwelling shall be at the outside of the camp.
47 And if there is in any garment a plague of leprosy, in a garment of wool, or in a garment of linen,
48 or in the warp, or in the woof, or of linen, or of wool, or in leather, or in any work of leather,
49 and if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the leather, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of leather, it is a plague of leprosy; and it shall be seen by the priest.
50 And the priest shall look on the plague, and shall shut up the plagued thing seven days.
51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day. And if the plague has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather, of all that is made of skin for use, the plague is a corroding leprosy; it is unclean.
52 And he shall burn the garment, or the warp, or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of leather, in which the plague is; for it is a corroding leprosy; it shall be burned with fire.
53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of leather,
54 then the priest shall command, and they shall wash that in which the plague is. And he shall shut it up a second seven days.
55 And the priest shall look on that in which the plague is after it has been washed. And, behold, if the plague has not changed its appearance, and if the plague has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it with fire; it is eaten away in its inside or in its outside.
56 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague has become pale after it has been washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the leather, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.
57 And if it is still seen in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of leather, it is a spreading plague; you shall burn it with fire, that in which the plague is.
58 And the garment, or the warp, or the woof, or anything of leather which you shall wash when the plague has been taken off them, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean.
59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or of linen, or of the warp, or of the woof, or of anything of leather, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

*~Leviticus Chapter 14 ~*

1 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing, that he shall be brought to the priest.
3 And the priest shall go out to the outside of the camp. And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,
4 then the priest shall command, and he shall take for him who is to be cleansed two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
5 And the priest shall command, and he shall kill the one bird on an earthen vessel, over running water;
6 he shall take the living bird, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the slain bird, over the running water.
7 And he shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean. And he shall send out the living bird into the open field.
8 And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his garments, and shall shave all his hair, and shall bathe with water, and shall be clean. And afterwards he shall come into the camp, and shall live on the outside of his tent seven days.
9 And it shall be on the seventh day, he shall shave all his hair, his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows; he shall even shave all his hair. And he shall wash his garments, and shall bathe his flesh with water, and shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb, daughter of a year, without blemish, and three tenth parts of flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
11 And the priest who is cleansing, and the man who is to be cleansed, shall stand with them before YAHUVEH, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
12 And the priest shall take the one male lamb and shall bring it near for a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and shall wave them as a wave offering before YAHUVEH.
13 And he shall kill the lamb in the place where he killed the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place. For like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering; and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil and shall pour it on the left hand of the priest.
16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil on his left palm and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before YAHUVEH.
17 And of the rest of the oil on his palm, the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering;
18 and the rest of the oil on the palm of the priest, he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. And the priest shall make atonement for him before YAHUVEH.
19 And the priest shall make a sin offering, and shall atone for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterwards he shall slaughter the burnt offering;
20 and the priest shall offer the burnt offering, and the food offering, on the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for him; and he shall be clean.
21 And if he is poor, and his hand is not able to reach these things, then he shall take one lamb as a guilt offering, for a wave offering, to atone for himself, and one tenth part of flour mixed with oil for a food offering, and a log of oil,
22 and two turtledoves, or two young doves, which his hand can reach; and one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
23 And he shall bring them in to the priest on the eighth day for his cleansing, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before YAHUVEH.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before YAHUVEH;
25 and he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and he shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
26 And the priest shall pour the oil on the left hand of the priest;
27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil on his palm, seven times before YAHUVEH.
28 And the priest shall put some of the oil on his palm on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering.
29 And the rest of the oil on the priest's palm he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to atone for him, before YAHUVEH.
30 And he shall offer one of the turtledoves, or of the young doves, from that which he is able to reach;
31 that which his hand has reached out to, the one a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering, besides the food offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before YAHUVEH.
32 This is the law of him in whom is a plague of leprosy whose hand could not reach to his cleansing.
33 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
34 When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you for a possession, and I have put a plague of leprosy in the house in the land of your possession;
35 then if he who owns the house shall come in and declare to the priest, saying, I have seen a plague in the house.
36 And the priest shall command, and they shall turn out from the house before the priest comes in to see the plague that all in the house may not be unclean; and afterwards the priest shall come in to see the house.
37 And he shall look upon the plague; and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with depressions greenish or reddish, and the appearance of it is lower than the wall;
38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the walls of the house;
40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside all around, and they shall pour out the dust which they have scraped off at the outside of the city, at an unclean place.
42 And they shall take other stones and bring them in to the place of the stones; and he shall take other clay and shall plaster the house.
43 And if the plague returns and breaks out in the house after he has taken away the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it has been plastered,
44 then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a corroding leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
45 And he shall break down the house; its stones, and its wood, and all the clay of the house; and he shall carry it out to the outside of the city, to an unclean place.
46 And he who goes into the house all the days he has shut it up shall be unclean until the evening.
47 And he who lies in the house shall wash his clothes and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes. 48And if the priest shall come in and carefully look, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the house after the house has been plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean; for the plague has been healed. 49And he shall take two birds for the cleansing of the house, and cedar wood, and scarlet dye, and hyssop; 50and he shall kill the one bird on an earthen vessel, over running water; 51and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and shall dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and shall sprinkle on the house seven times. 52And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet dye; 53and he shall send away the living bird to the outside of the city, to the open field, and shall atone for the house; and it shall be clean.
54 This is the law for every plague of the leprosy and for scabs;
55 and for leprosy of a garment, and of a house, 56and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
57 to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean; this is the law of leprosy.

*~Leviticus Chapter 15 ~*

1 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, to any man, When there is a discharge from his flesh; it is unclean because of his flow.
3 And this is his uncleanness in his issue, if his flesh has run with his issue, or his flesh has ceased from issue, it is his uncleanness. 4 Every bed on which the issuing one lies shall be unclean. And every thing on which he sits shall be unclean.
5 And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his garments, and shall bathe with water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
6 And he who sits on a thing on which he who discharges sat, shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
7 And he that touches the flesh of him who discharges shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until evening.
8 And if he who issues spits on a clean one, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in running water, and be unclean until the evening.
9 And every saddle on which he who discharges rides shall be unclean.
10 And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And the one carrying those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
11 And whomever he who has the discharge touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
12 And the earthen vessel that he who discharges touches shall be broken; and every wooden vessel shall be rinsed in water.
13 And when he who discharges is cleansed of his issue, then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
14 And on the eighth day he shall take to himself two turtle doves, or two young doves, and come before YAHUVEH to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and give them to the priest.
15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall atone for him before YAHUVEH for his discharge.
16 And if any man's semen goes out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.
17 And every garment, and every skin on which the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
18 And a woman with whom a man lies with an emission of semen shall bathe with water, and be unclean until the evening.
19 And if a woman's issue in her flesh is a flow of blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
20 And anything on which she lies in her impurity shall be unclean;1 and anything on which she sits shall be unclean.
21 And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.
22 And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
23 And if it is on the bed, or on anything on which she sits when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
24 And if lying any man lies with her, and her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
25 And if a woman has an issue of her blood many days outside the time of her impurity, or if she issues beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness, she shall be as in the days of her impurity; she is unclean.
26 Every bed on which she lies all the days of her issue shall be to her as the bed of her impurity to her; and everything on which she sits shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her impurity.
27 And whoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
28 And if she is cleansed of her issue then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
29 And on the eighth day she shall take to herself two turtledoves, or two young doves, and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
30 And the priests shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall atone for her before YAHUVEH for the issue of her uncleanness.
31 So you shall separate the sons of Israel from their uncleanness, and they shall not die in their uncleanness, when they defile My tabernacle that is in their midst.
32 This is the law of him that discharges, and of him from whom semen goes out, for uncleanness by it;
33 and of her who is menstruating in her impurity, and of him from whom the issue goes, of a male or of a female, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.