Leviticus - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 109
The Five Books of Moses
Cauan, which I shall give to you to possess, and find a contagious disease in a house in the land you possess, then the owner of the house shall go to the priest and inform him, saying that a contagious disease has appeared in his house, and de- mand that the priest should visit the house. The priest shall at once go and enquire the nature of the disease, and declare all in the house unclean. Then, afterthat, the priest shallgo to examine the house itself, and enquire into the disease, and if he finds the infection in the walls of the house; the drains having a greenish—·ye11ow, or purplish, rotting, and there appears decay in their walls, then the priest shall remove the family from the neighbourhood of the house and isolate the house for seven days. But the priest shall re-visit it on the seventh day and examine it again, and if the infection has spread in the drains! of the house, the priest shall command, and they shall pull away the stones in which the infection is, and remove them to the outside of the town, to the receptacle for refuse; and the house shall be cut 05 from the houses surrounding it, and they shall pour out the rubbish caused by the cutting it off at the outside of the town, into the receptacle for refuse. Then they shall take other stones in the place of these stones, and take other mortar, and repair the house. `But if the infection returns and spreads in the family after the re- moval of the stones, and after the destruction of the stones, and after the cutting off of the house, and after its repairing; then the priest shall come and examine it, and if he observes the infection spreading in the house, it is a virulent contagion the house itself is unclean. There-
fore he shall break down the house with its stones, and its timber, and all the mortar of the house, and carry it outside the town to the refuse heap.
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1{';, to run towards, improperly gaslated walls in the current versions. g And whoever enters that house, all the time that it is isolated, shall be unclean until the evening. Whoever rests -in that house shall wash his clothes; and whoever eats in that house shall wash his clothing. But if the priest upon coming to
examine observes that the infection is not spreading in that house after the house has been repaired_;——then the priest shall pronounce the house clean ; for it is cured of the infection. Then he shall take, as a sin·offering 4g for the house, two he—goats, and cedar wood, and scarlet wool and hysop, and slay one of the goats into an earthen bowl Hlled with living water, then prepare the cedar wood, and hysop,-and scarlet wool, and the liv- ing goat, and dabble them with some blood of the slain goat, and with the living water, and sprinkle the house seven times, and expiate for the house by the blood of the goat, and by living water, and by the living goat, and by the cedar wood, and scarlet wool. Afterwards he shall turn the living goat outside the village on the face of the field and expiate for the house and declare it clean. ‘ These are the laws about any
infectious disease, aud its removal, and for infected fabrics or houses; and for ulcerations, and running sores, and for scrofula, with eruptions, from the day of contagion, until
the day of their cure ;——thcsc are the laws of infection. 53 54 55 57
Qmritarg Qahm fur izxnal Qixznzzs. The EvER—L1VxNG also spoke to 15 Moses and to Aaron, saying; Speak to tha children of Israel and say to them ; ‘ If any one of you has a. discharge
from their generative organs, they are diseased. These then are the diseases in his genitals: a discharge from his generative organ; or if the organ ceases from generative power. He is then unhealthy. Any bed upon which the sufferer from such dis- charge lies is deiiledg and every chair upon which he sits is defxled; and any persons touching his bed shall wash their clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. And whoever sits on an article where the sufferer from the discharge has sat, shall wash their clothing, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. And whoever touches 100 l
