“He who is to be purified must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water. Then he will be clean; and after that, he may enter the camp; but he must live outside his tent for seven days. On the seventh day he is to shave all the hair off his […]

“The cohen is to order one of the birds slaughtered in a clay pot over running water. As for the live bird, he is to take it with the cedar-wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird slaughtered over running water, and sprinkle the person to be purified from […]

“This is to be the law concerning the person afflicted with tzara‘at on the day of his purification. He is to be brought to the cohen, and the cohen is to go outside the camp and examine him there. If he sees that the tzara‘at sores have been healed in the afflicted person, then the cohen will order that two living clean birds be taken for […]

Today we begin Leviticus Chapter 14. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. We can easily divide Leviticus chapter 14 into two sections. The first section (verses 1-32) deals with the purification rituals of a METSORA (skin disease carrier). The second section (verses 33-53) deals with TZARA-AT (skin disease) […]

In our study of Leviticus chapter 13, we learned two very important Hebrew words. The first word is TZARA-AT. Although most English bibles will translate TZARA-AT into “leprosy”, that is a big mistake. TZARA-AT was NOT leprosy, but rather any of the wide variety of skin infections one could contract that were generally NOT life-threatening. […]