This week’s parashot are the 4th and 5th parashot in the book of Vayikra also called Leviticus, and are called Tazria-Metzora which means ‘Conceived’ and ‘Leper’.
Bullet Point Summary
– A woman shall be separated 40 Days for a male, and 80 days for a female she gives birth to.
– At the end of her time of separation she shall bring a burnt offering and a sin offering to the priests.
– If someone has a rising in his flesh, scab, or bright spot, he shall show the priests.
– The priest shall examine the person and pronounce them clean or unclean.
– The priest shall shut them up 7 days if they are unclean.
– The priest shall examine them again and pronounce them clean or shut them up 7 more days.
– The laws of pronouncing an old leprosy are given.
– The laws of pronouncing raw flesh are given.
– The laws of pronouncing leprosy from a boil are given.
– The laws of pronouncing leprosy from a burning are given
– The laws of leprosy on the head or beard are given.
– The laws of bright spots in the flesh are given.
– The laws of pronouncing leprosy in the bald head are given.
– The leper shall dwell outside the camp, his clothes rent, his head bare, covering his upper lip crying unclean unclean
– The laws of pronouncing leprosy in garments are given
– The laws of cleansing a garment of leprosy are given
– When the priest says the leper is healed he shall take 2 birds, scarlet, hyssop, and cedar, and cleanse him
– The leper shall wash his clothes, shave his hair, bathe himself, and come into the camp but not his tent for 7 days
– On the 7th day he shall wash his clothes, shave all his hair, bathe and be clean
– On the 8th day he shall take 2 he lambs and a she lamb of the first year, a minkha, and a log of oil to the door of the tabernacle
– The priest shall sprinkle the oil before YHWH and place some on the right ear, thumb, and big toe, and pour the rest on the head of the leper
– The priest shall offer the sin and burnt offering and minkha for the leper to atone for him
– The law of him who is too poor to bring the offerings for leprosy
– The laws of leprosy in a house
– The laws of cleansing a person who has an issue going from them
– The laws of seed of copulation
– The laws of Niddah
– Haftarah – The story of the four lepers and the Syrians
Parashot Text with Readers and Daily Portions (Reader 1 Starts on Saturday Evening)
Tazria “Conceived” , Metzora “Leper”
Lev 12:1 – 15:33 , 2 Kings 7:3 – 7:20
Reader 1 (Saturday Evening Portion)
Lev 12:1 And YHWH spoke unto Moshe, saying,
Lev 12:2 Speak unto the children of Yisra’el, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born
a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation
for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
Lev 12:3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Lev 12:4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she
shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be
fulfilled.
Lev 12:5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation:
and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
Lev 12:6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall
bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a
sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
Lev 12:7 Who shall offer it before YHWH, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be
cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that has born a male or a female.
Lev 12:8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young
pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall
make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
(Sunday Morning Portion)
Lev 13:1 And YHWH spoke unto Moshe and Aharon, saying,
Lev 13:2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be
in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aharon the
priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:
Lev 13:3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in
the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a
plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
Lev 13:4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the
skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath
the plague seven days:
Lev 13:5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight
be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven
days more:
Lev 13:6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be
somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean:
it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Lev 13:7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he has been seen of the priest
for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:
Lev 13:8 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreads in the skin, then the priest shall
pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.
Lev 13:9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;
Lev 13:10 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have
turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
Lev 13:11 It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean,
and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
Lev 13:12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him
that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looks;
Lev 13:13 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh,
he shall pronounce him clean that has the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
Lev 13:14 But when raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.
Lev 13:15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw
flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.
Lev 13:16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the
priest;
Lev 13:17 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the
priest shall pronounce him clean that has the plague: he is clean.
Lev 13:18 The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed,
Lev 13:19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and
somewhat reddish, and it be showed to the priest;
Lev 13:20 And if, when the priest sees it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair
thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy
broken out of the boil.
Lev 13:21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be
not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Lev 13:22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him
unclean: it is a plague.
Lev 13:23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the
priest shall pronounce him clean.
Reader 2 (Sunday Evening Portion)
Lev 13:24 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh
that burns have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;
Lev 13:25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned
white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning:
wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
Lev 13:26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and
it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up
seven days:
Lev 13:27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if it be spread much abroad
in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
Lev 13:28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat
dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is an
inflammation of the burning.
(Monday Morning Portion)
Lev 13:29 If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
Lev 13:30 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin;
and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry
scall, a leprosy upon the head or beard.
Lev 13:31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper
than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that has
the plague of the scall seven days:
Lev 13:32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall
spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the
skin;
Lev 13:33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him
that has the scall seven days more:
Lev 13:34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be
not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce
him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Lev 13:35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
Lev 13:36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the
priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
Lev 13:37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein;
the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Lev 13:38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white
bright spots;
Lev 13:39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be
darkish white; it is a freckled spot that grows in the skin; he is clean.
Reader 3 (Monday Evening Portion)
Lev 13:40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
Lev 13:41 And he that has his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is
forehead bald: yet is he clean.
Lev 13:42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy
sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
Lev 13:43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white
reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appears in the skin of the
flesh;
Lev 13:44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean;
his plague is in his head.
Lev 13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and
he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
Lev 13:46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he
shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
(Tuesday Morning Portion)
Lev 13:47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or
a linen garment;
Lev 13:48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in
any thing made of skin;
Lev 13:49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the
warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be showed
unto the priest:
Lev 13:50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven
days:
Lev 13:51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin;
the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
Lev 13:52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen,
or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the
fire.
Lev 13:53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment,
either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
Lev 13:54 Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he
shall shut it up seven days more:
Reader 4 (Tuesday Evening Portion)
Lev 13:55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the
plague have not changed his color, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; you shall
burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
Lev 13:56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of
it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of
the woof:
Lev 13:57 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing
of skin; it is a spreading plague: you shall burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
Lev 13:58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which you
shall wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time,
and shall be clean.
Lev 13:59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the
warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
(Wednesday Morning Portion)
Lev 14:1 And YHWH spoke unto Moshe, saying,
Lev 14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto
the priest:
Lev 14:3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if
the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
Lev 14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive
and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Lev 14:5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over
running water:
Lev 14:6 As 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 that was killed over
the running water:
Lev 14:7 And 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.
Lev 14:8 And 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.
Lev 14:9 But 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.
Lev 14:10 And 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 for a minkha, mingled
with oil, and one log of oil.
Lev 14:11 And the priest that makes him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean,
and those things, before YHWH, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Lev 14:12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the
log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before YHWH:
Lev 14:13 And 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 is the priest’s, so is the trespass
offering: it is most holy:
Lev 14:14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest
shall put it 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:
Lev 14:15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own
left hand:
Lev 14:16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall
sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before YHWH:
Lev 14:17 And of the rest of the oil that is 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:
Lev 14:18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall pour upon the head of
him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before YHWH.
Lev 14:19 And 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:
Lev 14:20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the minkha upon the altar: and the
priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
Reader 5 (Wednesday Evening Portion)
Lev 14:21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass
offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled
with oil for a minkha, and a log of oil;
Lev 14:22 And 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.
Lev 14:23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before YHWH.
(Thursday Morning Portion)
Lev 14:24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the
priest shall wave them for a wave offering before YHWH:
Lev 14:25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of
the blood of the trespass offering, and put it 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:
Lev 14:26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
Lev 14:27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left
hand seven times before YHWH:
Lev 14:28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is 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:
Lev 14:29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him
that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before YHWH.
Lev 14:30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can
get;
Lev 14:31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
offering, with the minkha: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be
cleansed before YHWH.
Lev 14:32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get
that which pertains to his cleansing.
Reader 6 (Thursday Evening Portion)
Lev 14:33 And YHWH spoke unto Moshe and unto Aharon, saying,
Lev 14:34 When you be come into the land of Kena’an, which I give to you for a possession, and
I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
Lev 14:35 And he that owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seems to me
there is as it were a plague in the house:
Lev 14:36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it
to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest
shall go in to see the house:
Lev 14:37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house
with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
Lev 14:38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the
house seven days:
Lev 14:39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the
plague be spread in the walls of the house;
Lev 14:40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is,
and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
Lev 14:41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour
out the dust that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place:
Lev 14:42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he
shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
Lev 14:43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he has taken
away the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
Lev 14:44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the
house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
Lev 14:45 And 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 them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
Lev 14:46 Moreover he that goes into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean
until the even.
Lev 14:47 And he that lies in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eats in the house
shall wash his clothes.
Lev 14:48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague has not
spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the
house clean, because the plague is healed.
Lev 14:49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop:
Lev 14:50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
Lev 14:51 And 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:
Lev 14:52 And 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:
Lev 14:53 But 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.
Lev 14:54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
Lev 14:55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
Lev 14:56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
Lev 14:57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
Lev 15:1 And YHWH spoke unto Moshe and to Aharon, saying,
Lev 15:2 Speak unto the children of Yisra’el, and say unto them, When any man has a running
issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
Lev 15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or
his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
Lev 15:4 Every bed, whereon he lies that has the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he
sits, shall be unclean.
Lev 15:5 And whosoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:6 And he that sits on any thing whereon he sat that has the issue shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:7 And he that touches the flesh of him that has the issue shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:8 And if he that has the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:9 And what saddle soever he rides upon that has the issue shall be unclean.
Lev 15:10 And whosoever touches any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even:
and he that bears any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and
be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:11 And whomsoever he touches that has the issue, and has not rinsed his hands in water,
he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:12 And the vessel of earth, that he touches which has the issue, shall be broken: and
every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
Lev 15:13 And when he that has an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to
himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running
water, and shall be clean.
Lev 15:14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and
come before YHWH unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto
the priest:
Lev 15:15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before YHWH for his issue.
Reader 7 (6th Day Friday Morning Double Portion)
Lev 15:16 And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh
in water, and be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be
washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both
bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put
apart seven days: and whosoever touches her shall be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:20 And every thing that she lies upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also
that she sits upon shall be unclean.
Lev 15:21 And whosoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:22 And whosoever touches any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall
be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean
seven days; and all the bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.
Lev 15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her
separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her
uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
Lev 15:26 Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her
separation: and whatsoever she sits upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her
separation.
Lev 15:27 And whosoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Lev 15:28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and
after that she shall be clean.
Lev 15:29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and
bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Lev 15:30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering;
and the priest shall make an atonement for her before YHWH for the issue of her
uncleanness.
Lev 15:31 Thus shall you separate the children of Yisra’el from their uncleanness; that they die
not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
Lev 15:32 This is the law of him that has an issue, and of him whose seed goes from him, and is
defiled therewith;
Lev 15:33 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that has an issue, of the man, and of
the woman, and of him that lies with her that is unclean.
Haftarah (Shabbat Evening Portion)
2Ki 7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to
another, Why sit we here until we die?
2Ki 7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die
there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of
the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2Ki 7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they
were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
2Ki 7:6 For YHWH had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of
horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Yisra’el
has hired against us the kings of the Chitti, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
2Ki 7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and
their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
2Ki 7:8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent,
and did eat and drink, and carried from there silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and
hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried from there also, and went
and hid it.
2Ki 7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we
hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now
therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.
2Ki 7:10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We
came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man,
but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
2Ki 7:11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.
2Ki 7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now show you what
the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the
camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch
them alive, and get into the city.
2Ki 7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray you, five of the horses
that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Yisra’el that
are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Yisra’elim that are
consumed:) and let us send and see.
2Ki 7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians,
saying, Go and see.
2Ki 7:15 And they went after them unto Yarden: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and
vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and
told the king.
2Ki 7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine
flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of
YHWH.
2Ki 7:17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the
gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of Elohim had said,
who spoke when the king came down to him.
2Ki 7:18 And it came to pass as the man of Elohim had spoken to the king, saying, Two
measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow
about this time in the gate of Shomron:
2Ki 7:19 And that lord answered the man of Elohim, and said, Now, behold, if YHWH should
make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with
your eyes, but shall not eat thereof.
2Ki 7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
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