{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_lev014_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_lev014_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_lev014_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/lev014.htm","summary":"This is a passage of biblical law from Leviticus (chapter 14), drawn from the Hebrew Bible (Tanach) in the 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation. It prescribes detailed ritual procedures for purifying a person healed of leprosy (tzara'at), covering a two-stage process: an initial ceremony outside the camp involving two birds, cedar-wood, scarlet thread, and hyssop, followed by an eight-day sequence of shaving, bathing, and animal sacrifices at the sanctuary. The text is notably attentive to economic justice, providing a scaled-down version of the sacrificial requirements for those who cannot afford the full set of offerings \u2014 substituting turtledoves for additional lambs. The passage then extends the same diagnostic and purification logic to buildings, detailing how a priest should inspect a house for plague-like discoloration, quarantine it, order infected stones removed, and ultimately demolish it if the affliction persists, using an identical bird-and-hyssop cleansing rite for houses declared clean. The overall framework treats leprosy not merely as a medical condition but as a ritual impurity requiring priestly adjudication and atonement before the LORD, with the priest functioning simultaneously as diagnostician, ritual officiant, and mediator of divine cleansing.","tags":["Book of Chronicles","Hebrew Bible Translation","Jewish Publication Society Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Tanach (JPS): Leviticus: Leviticus Chapter 14","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1738}