Today is the 23rd day of February.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today.

Well, it's wonderful to be here every day. It's wonderful to have a

place to be together and I'm glad it can be this place here around the global

campfire to take the next step forward. We're in the book of Leviticus right now and

Leviticus can seem to be tedious but it is teaching us about clean and unclean and things that are on the surface and things that

go skin deep or below the surface.

And so we continue our journey today with Leviticus chapter 14.

And the Lord said to Moses, the following instructions are for those seeking ceremonial purification from a skin disease.

Those who have been healed must be brought to the priest who will examine them at a place outside the camp.

If the priest finds that someone has been healed of a serious skin disease,

he will perform a purification ceremony using two live birds that are

ceremonially clean, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hissop branch.

The priest will order that one bird be slaughtered over a clay pot filled with fresh water.

He will take the live bird, the cedar stick, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssip branch, and dipped them into the blood of the bird

that was slaughtered over the fresh water.

The priest will then sprinkle the blood of the dead bird seven times on the person being

purified of this skin disease.

When the priest has purified the person, he will release the live bird in the open field to fly

away.

The person being purified must then wash their clothes, shave off all their

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