In this chapter we find the cleansing ceremony that had to be performed before a healed leper could return to normal society. A bird was killed in an earthen vessel over running water. The blood of that bird was applied to a second, living bird, as well as to cedar wood, scarlet fabric, and hyssop. The priest then sprinkled some of the blood onto the person who was healed from leprosy. The living bird was let go, and the blood spread from its wings as it flew over the land.<\/p>\n
There is a clear comparison between the cleansing ceremony of a leper and Jesus Christ\u2019s death on the cross, which served as the supreme sacrifice for sin. Jesus is the heavenly sacrifice just as the bird that died in the earthen vessel was an earthly sacrifice. The sacrificed bird remained clean because of the running water, and Jesus was without sin. The blood and water was then applied to the living bird, in the same way the sinner’s heart must be covered by Jesus\u2019 shed blood, for without its application there is no redemption.<\/p>\n
The cedar wood is a picture of the wooden cross Jesus was sacrificed on. Many believe that cross was probably made of cedar, as few other kinds of trees were available in Israel.<\/p>\n
The hyssop is also connected to the sacrifice of Jesus. He was offered a drink from a hyssop branch while on the cross. King David wrote in Psalm 51:7, “purge me with hyssop,” probably meaning that he was as diseased as a leper and in need of cleansing.<\/p>\n
Finally, after the cleansing ceremony with the birds, the leper was to wash his clothes and shave off all of his hair. He was starting over again as if he were a newborn baby, a clear picture of being born again.<\/p>\n
“Thank you, Lord, for new life. Help us to live that life out well today.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leviticus 14 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses, saying,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold,\u00a0if\u00a0<\/em>the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:\u00a0\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird\u00a0that was\u00a0<\/em>killed over the running water:\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.\u00a0\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. 10<\/sup>\u00a0And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.\u00a0\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest that maketh\u00a0him\u00a0<\/em>clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the\u00a0LORD,\u00a0at\u00a0<\/em>the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a wave offering before the\u00a0LORD:\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the priest\u2019s,\u00a0so is\u00a0<\/em>the trespass offering: it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>most holy:\u00a014<\/sup>And the priest shall take\u00a0some\u00a0<\/em>of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put\u00a0it<\/em>upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall take\u00a0some\u00a0<\/em>of the log of oil, and pour\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>into the palm of his own left hand:\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the\u00a0LORD:\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And of the rest of the oil that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0And the remnant of the oil that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>in the priest\u2019s hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the\u00a0LORD.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean. 21<\/sup>\u00a0And if he\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the\u00a0LORD.\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a wave offering before the\u00a0LORD:\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take\u00a0some\u00a0<\/em>of the blood of the trespass offering, and put\u00a0it\u00a0<\/em>upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger\u00a0some\u00a0<\/em>of the oil that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>in his left hand seven times before the\u00a0LORD:\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall put of the oil that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0And the rest of the oil that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>in the priest\u2019s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the\u00a0LORD.\u00a030<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;\u00a031<\/sup>\u00a0Even\u00a0<\/em>such as he is able to get, the one\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a sin offering, and the other\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the\u00a0LORD.\u00a032<\/sup>\u00a0This\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the law\u00a0of him\u00a0<\/em>in whom\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get\u00a0that which pertaineth\u00a0<\/em>to his cleansing. 33<\/sup>\u00a0\u00b6 And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,\u00a034<\/sup>\u00a0When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;\u00a035<\/sup>\u00a0And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me\u00a0there is\u00a0<\/em>as it were a plague in the house:\u00a036<\/sup>\u00a0Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go\u00a0into it\u00a0<\/em>to see the plague, that all that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:\u00a0\u00a037<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall look on the plague, and, behold,\u00a0if\u00a0<\/em>the plague\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>lower than the wall;\u00a038<\/sup>\u00a0Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:\u00a039<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold,\u00a0if\u00a0<\/em>the plague be spread in the walls of the house;\u00a040<\/sup>\u00a0Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:\u00a041<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:\u00a042<\/sup>\u00a0And they shall take other stones, and put\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.\u00a043<\/sup>\u00a0And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;\u00a044<\/sup>\u00a0Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold,\u00a0if\u00a0<\/em>the plague be spread in the house, it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>a fretting leprosy in the house: it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>unclean.\u00a045<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>forth out of the city into an unclean place.\u00a046<\/sup>\u00a0Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.\u00a047<\/sup>\u00a0And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.\u00a048<\/sup>And if the priest shall come in, and look\u00a0upon it\u00a0<\/em>, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.\u00a0\u00a049<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:\u00a050<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:\u00a051<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:\u00a052<\/sup>\u00a0And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:\u00a053<\/sup>\u00a0But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean. 54<\/sup>\u00a0This\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,\u00a055<\/sup>\u00a0And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,\u00a056<\/sup>\u00a0And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:\u00a057<\/sup>\u00a0To teach when\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>unclean, and when\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>clean: this\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the law of leprosy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this chapter we find the cleansing ceremony that had to be performed before a healed leper could return to normal society. 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