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Leviticus 14:11 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. "
Leviticus 14:11
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9 It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean.
10 “On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, one ewe lamb a year old without defect, three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
11 The priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
12 “The priest shall take one of the male lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering, with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.
13 He shall kill the male lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy.
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Leviticus 14:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"
Leviticus 14:2
"“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest,"
Leviticus 14:3
"and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,"
Leviticus 14:4
"then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop."
Leviticus 14:5
"The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water."
Leviticus 14:6
"As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water."
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