Leviticuschapter 14
57 verses · Moses, by tradition · 15th to 13th century BC · The Law
Original Language
Leviticus 14— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Leviticus 14. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
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מְּצֹרָע Metzora, Leviticus 14:1 to 15:33
Read with it: 2 Kings 7:3 to 7:20.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Two birds — one killed, one let fly1
Leviticus 14:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 14:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Blood and oil on ear, thumb, and toe10
Leviticus 14:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Leviticus 14:10
AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY HE SHALL TAKE TWO HE-LAMBS WITHOUT BLEMISH, AND ONE EWE-LAMB. Scripture has not explained what is to be done with the two he-lambs and the one ewe-lamb.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Leviticus 14:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Leviticus 14:11
'לפני ה BEFORE THE LORD — i. e. in the gate of Nicanor and not in the court itself (Sifra, Metzora, Section 3; Sotah 8a), since he was still short of atonement (as the sin-offering had not yet been brought, and under such circumstances he was not permitted to enter the court).
Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Leviticus 14:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Leviticus 14:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Leviticus 14:14
תנוך is the inner wall of the ear. The etymology of the word תנוך is unknown to me, and the compilers of glossaries call it (translate it by) tendron (cf. Rashi on Exodus:22).
Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Leviticus 14:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Leviticus 14:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Leviticus 14:16
'לפני ה [AND HE SHALL SPRINKLE …] BEFORE THE LORD — in the direction of the Holy of Holies (cf. Sifra, Metzora, Chapter 3 9).
Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Leviticus 14:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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If he is poor: one lamb and two birds21
Leviticus 14:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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Leprosy in the walls of a house33
Leviticus 14:33· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
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The law for every plague and scall54
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