Leviticus 14

“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,” Naming Moses keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his…” The line’s distinctive content terms include able, cleansing, hand. Its relationship to verses 31 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,” Naming Aaron and Moses keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a…” Naming Canaan keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath…” The line’s distinctive content terms include house, break, plague. Its relationship to verses 42 and 44 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,” The line’s distinctive content terms include leprosy, manner, plague. Its relationship to verses 53 and 55 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,” The line’s distinctive content terms include garment, house, leprosy. Its relationship to verses 54 and 56 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:” The line’s distinctive content terms include bright, rising, scab. Its relationship to verses 55 shows what work it does in this passage.

“To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.” The line’s distinctive content terms include clean, leprosy, teach. Its surrounding passage determines what work this line does.