טָהוֹר

You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.

And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.

You are also to make the plates and dishes, as well as the pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.

Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.

The buds and branches are to be all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

The wick trimmers and their trays must be of pure gold.

The lampstand and all these utensils shall be made from a talent of pure gold.

…and two chains of pure gold, made of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.

For the breastpiece, make braided chains like cords of pure gold.

You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.

…and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

…the table with its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,

He overlaid it with pure gold, both inside and out, and made a gold molding around it.

He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding around it.

He also made the utensils for the table out of pure gold: its plates and dishes, as well as its bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings.

Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold, all of one piece: its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.

The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

He also made its seven lamps, its wick trimmers, and trays of pure gold.

He made the lampstand and all its utensils from a talent of pure gold.

And he overlaid with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns. Then he made a molding of gold around it.

He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

For the breastpiece they made braided chains like cords of pure gold.

They also made bells of pure gold and attached them around the hem between the pomegranates,

They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

…the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;

…all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the ash heap.

Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.

Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;

You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”

…the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean.

The priest will reexamine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the infected person clean; then he is clean.

If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.

…the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.

Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.

Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.

…the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.

…to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”