to teach when something is unclean and when it is clean. ¹  This is the law for dealing with infectious disease.” ² 

Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is clean, but an abundant harvest is produced by strong oxen. ¹ 

After a priest ¹  has become ceremonially clean, they ²  must count off a period of seven days for him.

Then he must take off his clothes and put on other clothes, and he must bring the fatty ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially ¹  clean place,

However, a spring or a cistern which collects water ¹  will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”

But if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread, ¹  it is the scar of the boil, so the priest is to pronounce him clean. ² 

and sprinkle it seven times on the one being cleansed ¹  from the disease, pronounce him clean, ²  and send the live bird away over the open countryside. ³ 

If the man with a discharge spits on a person who is ceremonially clean, ¹  that person must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

for on this day atonement is to be made for you to cleanse you from all your sins; you must be clean before the Lord. ¹ 

When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat from the holy offerings, because they are his food.

But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects ¹  and will be able to bear children.

And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”

You may eat it in your villages, ¹  whether you are ritually impure or clean, ²  just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

everyone who has determined to follow God, ¹  the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.” ² 

I will sprinkle you with pure water ¹  and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean. ¹ 

Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand.

The priest must then examine it again on the seventh day, ¹  and if ²  the infection has faded and has not spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person clean. ³  It is a scab, ⁴  so he must wash his clothes ⁵  and be clean.