Poor Person’s Sacrifices {Leviticus 14:21-32}
Robin G (#25)
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1. Leviticus 14:21,22 (NABRE)
If a person is poor and cannot afford so much, that person shall take one male lamb for a reparation offering, to be used as an elevated offering in atonement, one tenth of an ephah of bran flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, a log of oil, and two turtledoves or pigeons, which the individual can more easily afford, the one as a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering.
2. Leviticus 14:23 (NABRE)
On the eighth day of purification the person shall bring them to the priest, at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord.
3. Leviticus 14:24 (NABRE)
Taking the lamb of the reparation offering, along with the log of oil, the priest shall raise them as an elevated offering before the Lord.
4. Leviticus 14:25 (NABRE)
When the lamb of the reparation offering has been slaughtered, the priest shall take some of its blood, and put it on the lobe of the right ear, on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified.
5. Leviticus 14:26,27 (NABRE)
The priest shall then pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand and with his right finger sprinkle some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the Lord.
6. Leviticus 14:28 (NABRE)
Some of the oil in his hand the priest shall also put on the lobe of the right ear, the thumb of the right hand, and the big toe of the right foot of the person being purified, where he had sprinkled the blood of the reparation offering.
7. Leviticus 14:29 (NABRE)
The rest of the oil in his hand the priest shall put on the head of the one being purified. Thus shall he make atonement for the individual before the Lord.
8. Leviticus 14:30,31 (NABRE)
Then, of the turtledoves or pigeons, such as the person can afford, the priest shall offer one as a purification offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. Thus shall the priest make atonement before the Lord for the person who is being purified.
9. Leviticus 14:32 (NABRE)
This is the ritual for one afflicted with a scaly infection who has insufficient means for purification.

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