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Leviticus 14:11The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 14:22“This is the law of the diseased person on the day of his purification, when he is brought to the priest.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Luke 17:14Luke 5:12-14Mark 1:40-44Num 6:9Lev 13:59Lev 14:54-57Matt 8:2-4
Leviticus 14:33The priest is to go outside the camp and examine the infection. If the infection of the diseased person has been healed,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 13:461 Cor 6:9-112 Kgs 5:142 Kgs 5:32 Kgs 5:7-8Exod 15:26Job 5:18Luke 17:15-19Luke 4:27Luke 7:22
Leviticus 14:44then the priest will command that two live clean birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop be taken up for the one being cleansed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Num 19:6Heb 9:19Lev 14:6Exod 12:22Ps 51:7Lev 1:14Lev 12:8Lev 14:49-52Lev 5:7Num 19:18
Leviticus 14:55The priest will then command that one bird be slaughtered into a clay vessel over fresh water.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Heb 2:14Lev 14:502 Cor 13:42 Cor 4:72 Cor 5:1Num 5:17
Leviticus 14:66Then he is to take the live bird along with the piece of cedar wood, the scrap of crimson fabric, and the twigs of hyssop, and he is to dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird slaughtered over the fresh water,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Heb 1:3John 14:19Lev 14:4Lev 14:51-53Phil 2:9-11Rev 1:18Rev 1:5Rom 4:25Rom 5:10Zech 13:1
Leviticus 14:77and sprinkle it seven times on the one being cleansed from the disease, pronounce him clean, and send the live bird away over the open countryside.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Kgs 5:102 Kgs 5:14Ezek 36:25Isa 52:151 Pet 1:2Heb 9:13Heb 9:191 John 5:6Dan 9:24Eph 5:26-27
Leviticus 14:88“The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 11:251 Pet 3:21Num 8:72 Chr 26:21Exod 19:10Exod 19:14Lev 13:5-6Lev 14:20Lev 14:9Lev 15:5-8
Leviticus 14:99When the seventh day comes he must shave all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, all his hair—and he must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and so be clean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Num 6:9Lev 14:8Num 8:7
Leviticus 14:1010“On the eighth day he must take two flawless male lambs, one flawless yearling female lamb, three-tenths of an ephah of choice wheat flour as a grain offering mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 2:1Lev 14:12Lev 14:15Lev 14:21Luke 5:14Mark 1:44Matt 8:41 Pet 1:19Exod 29:40John 1:29
Leviticus 14:1111and the priest who pronounces him clean will have the man who is being cleansed stand along with these offerings before the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Eph 5:26-27Exod 29:1-4Jude 1:24Lev 8:3Num 8:21Num 8:6-11
Leviticus 14:1212“The priest is to take one male lamb and present it for a guilt offering along with the log of olive oil and present them as a wave offering before the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 29:24Lev 6:6-7Isa 53:10Lev 5:18-19Lev 5:2-3Lev 5:6-7Lev 8:27-29
Leviticus 14:1313He must then slaughter the male lamb in the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered, in the sanctuary, because, like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 29:11Lev 1:11Lev 4:24Lev 2:3Lev 4:4Lev 7:6-7Lev 1:5Lev 10:17Lev 21:22Lev 6:24-30
Leviticus 14:1414Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 29:20Lev 8:23-242 Cor 7:11 Cor 6:20Isa 1:5Phil 1:20Rom 12:1Rom 6:13Rom 6:191 Pet 1:14-15
Leviticus 14:1515The priest will then take some of the log of olive oil and pour it into his own left hand.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 John 2:20John 3:34Ps 45:7
Leviticus 14:1616Then the priest is to dip his right forefinger into the olive oil that is in his left hand, and sprinkle some of the olive oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Cor 10:31Lev 4:17Lev 4:6Luke 17:18
Leviticus 14:1717The priest will then put some of the rest of the olive oil that is in his hand on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Pet 1:2Exod 29:20-21Ezek 36:27John 1:16Lev 14:14Lev 8:30Titus 3:3-6
Leviticus 14:1818and the remainder of the olive oil that is in his hand the priest is to put on the head of the one being cleansed. So the priest is to make atonement for him before the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 4:262 Cor 1:21-22Eph 1:17-18Exod 29:7Lev 4:31Lev 5:16Lev 8:12
Leviticus 14:1919“The priest must then perform the sin offering and make atonement for the one being cleansed from his impurity. After that he is to slaughter the burnt offering,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:122 Cor 5:21Lev 12:6-8Lev 5:1Lev 5:6Rom 8:3
Leviticus 14:2020and the priest is to offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest is to make atonement for him and he will be clean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:10Eph 5:2Lev 14:8
Leviticus 14:2121“If the person is poor and does not have sufficient means, he must take one male lamb as a guilt offering for a wave offering to make atonement for himself, one-tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of olive oil,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 5:7Lev 12:8Prov 17:51 Sam 2:82 Cor 8:122 Cor 8:9Jas 2:5-6Job 34:19Lev 1:14Lev 14:22
Leviticus 14:2222and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, which are within his means. One will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 7:16Isa 38:14Isa 59:11Jer 48:28Lev 5:7Ps 68:13Song 2:14
Leviticus 14:2323“On the eighth day he must bring them for his purification to the priest at the entrance of the Meeting Tent before the Lord,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:10-11
Leviticus 14:2424and the priest is to take the male lamb of the guilt offering and the log of olive oil and wave them as a wave offering before the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:10Lev 14:12
Leviticus 14:2525Then he is to slaughter the male lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Eccl 5:1Lev 14:14-20Ps 40:6
Leviticus 14:2626The priest will then pour some of the olive oil into his own left hand,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 14:2727and sprinkle some of the olive oil that is in his left hand with his right forefinger seven times before the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 14:2828Then the priest is to put some of the olive oil that is in his hand on the right earlobe of the one being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 14:2929and the remainder of the olive oil that is in the hand of the priest he is to put on the head of the one being cleansed to make atonement for him before the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:181 John 2:1-21 John 5:6Exod 30:15-16John 17:19Lev 14:20
Leviticus 14:3030“He will then make one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, which are within his means,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:22Lev 12:8Lev 15:14-15Luke 2:24Rom 8:3
Leviticus 14:3131a sin offering and the other a burnt offering along with the grain offering. So the priest is to make atonement for the one being cleansed before the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:18Lev 5:7
Leviticus 14:3232This is the law of the one in whom there is a diseased infection, who does not have sufficient means for his purification.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:10Lev 14:211 Cor 1:27-28Lev 13:59Lev 14:2Lev 14:54-57Matt 11:5Ps 136:23Ps 72:12-14
Leviticus 14:3333The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 14:3434“When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give to you for a possession, and I put a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Deut 32:49Gen 17:81 Sam 2:6Amos 3:6Deut 12:1Deut 12:8-10Deut 7:1-2Deut 7:15Exod 15:26Gen 12:7
Leviticus 14:3535then whoever owns the house must come and declare to the priest, ‘Something like an infection is visible to me in the house.’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ps 91:10Deut 7:26Zech 5:41 Kgs 13:341 Sam 3:12-14Josh 7:21Prov 3:33
Leviticus 14:3636Then the priest will command that the house be cleared before the priest enters to examine the infection so that everything in the house does not become unclean, and afterward the priest will enter to examine the house.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Cor 15:332 Tim 2:17-18Heb 12:15Rev 18:4
Leviticus 14:3737He is to examine the infection, and if the infection in the walls of the house consists of yellowish green or reddish eruptions, and it appears to be deeper than the surface of the wall,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 13:19-20Lev 13:3Lev 13:42Lev 13:49
Leviticus 14:3838then the priest is to go out of the house to the doorway of the house and quarantine the house for seven days.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 13:50
Leviticus 14:3939The priest must return on the seventh day and examine it, and if the infection has spread in the walls of the house,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 13:22Lev 13:27Lev 13:36Lev 13:51Lev 13:7-8
Leviticus 14:4040then the priest is to command that the stones that had the infection in them be pulled and thrown outside the city into an unclean place.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Cor 5:131 Cor 5:5-62 John 1:10-11Isa 1:25-26John 15:2Matt 18:17Prov 22:10Prov 25:4-5Ps 101:5Ps 101:7-8
Leviticus 14:4141Then they shall scrape the house all around on the inside, and the plaster which they have scraped off must be dumped outside the city into an unclean place.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Tim 1:20Isa 65:4Job 36:13-14Matt 24:51Matt 8:28Rev 22:15
Leviticus 14:4242They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Tim 5:21-221 Tim 5:9-102 Chr 17:7-92 Chr 19:5-72 Chr 29:4-52 Tim 2:2Acts 1:20-26Gen 18:19Josh 24:15Ps 101:6
Leviticus 14:4343“If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Pet 2:202 Pet 2:22Ezek 24:13Heb 6:4-8Jer 6:28-30Jude 1:12
Leviticus 14:4444the priest is to come and examine it, and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant disease in the house. It is unclean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 13:51-52Zech 5:4
Leviticus 14:4545He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Kgs 9:6-92 Kgs 10:272 Kgs 17:20-232 Kgs 18:42 Kgs 25:25-262 Kgs 25:4-12Ezek 5:4Jer 52:13Matt 22:7Matt 24:2
Leviticus 14:4646Anyone who enters the house all the days the priest has quarantined it will be unclean until evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Num 19:21-22Lev 11:24-25Lev 11:28Lev 15:10Lev 15:5-8Lev 17:15Lev 22:6Num 19:7-10
Leviticus 14:4747Anyone who lies down in the house must wash his clothes. Anyone who eats in the house must wash his clothes.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 11:25Lev 14:8-9
Leviticus 14:4848“If, however, the priest enters and examines it, and the infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:1 Cor 6:11Hos 6:1Job 5:18Lev 14:3Luke 7:21Mark 5:29Mark 5:34
Leviticus 14:4949Then he is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop to purify the house,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:4
Leviticus 14:5050and he is to slaughter one bird into a clay vessel over fresh water.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 14:5151He must then take the piece of cedar wood, the twigs of hyssop, the scrap of crimson fabric, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ps 51:7
Leviticus 14:5252So he is to purify the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the piece of cedar wood, the twigs of hyssop, and the scrap of crimson fabric,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 14:5353and he is to send the live bird away outside the city into the open countryside. So he is to make atonement for the house and it will be clean.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 14:20Lev 14:7
Leviticus 14:5454“This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 14:32Lev 15:32Num 5:29Deut 24:8Lev 11:46Lev 13:30-31Lev 14:2Lev 6:14Lev 6:25Lev 6:9
Leviticus 14:5555for the diseased garment, for the house,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 13:47-59
Leviticus 14:5656for the swelling, for the scab, and for the bright spot,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 13:2
Leviticus 14:5757to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for dealing with infectious disease.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 10:10Ezek 44:23Jer 15:19Deut 24:8
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