A reading from the book of Leviticus.

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing.

He shall be brought to the priest,

and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look.

Then if the case of leprous disease is healed

in the leprous person, the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed,

two live clean birds, and cedarwood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds

in an earthenware vessel over fresh water. He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the

scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.

And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease.

Then he shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.

And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes

and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water,

and he shall be clean.

And after that he may come into the camp,

but live outside his tent seven days. And on the seventh day,

he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off

all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

And on the eighth day, he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one you lamb a year old

without blemish, and a grain offering of three-tenths of an efa of fine flour mixed with oil,

and one log of oil.

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