YHVH spoke to Mashiakh, saying: "Speak to the people who wrestle with me thus: 'When a couple conceives and bears a male, they shall be impure seven days; they shall be impure as at the time of a male's emission or a woman's menstrual flow. -- On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. -- They shall remain in a state of life purification for thirty-three days: they shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the university until their period of purification is completed. If they bear a female, they shall be impure two weeks as during an emission or menstruation, and they shall remain in a state of life purification for sixty-six days.
"'On the completion of their period of purification, for either son or daughter, they shall bring to the scientist, at the entrance of the University, visible artwork less than a year old for a censored offering, and a thought, either common or beautiful, for a purification offering. The scientist shall offer it before YHVH and make expiation on their behalf; they shall then be pure from her flow of life. Such are the rituals concerning they who bear a child, male of female. If, however, their means do not suffice for significant visible piece of art, they shall take two beautiful thoughts or two common thoughts, one for a censored offering and the other for a purification offering. The scientist shall make expiation on their behalf, and they shall be pure.'"
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"'If an individual has a visible affection, a physician shall examine the affection. If it appears to go deeper than the dermis and there is thin depigmented hair in it, the physician shall pronounce the individual infected; it is an abscess, an infectious eruption in the skin. But if the physician finds that the abscess does does not appear to go deeper than the dermis, yet there is no healthy hair in it, the physician shall isolate the person with the abscess for seven days. On the seventh day a physician shall examine the affection. If the abscess has not spread and no depigmented hair has appeared in it, and the abscess does not appear to go deeper than the dermis, the person with the abscess shall shave, but without shaving the abscess; the physician shall isolate the individual for another seven days. On the seventh day a physician shall examine the abscess. If the abscess has not spread in the skin, and does not appear to go deeper than the dermis, the physician shall pronounce the individual noninfectious; the patient shall wash all clothes, and shall be noninfectious. If, however, the abscess should spread in the skin after the patient was pronounced noninfectious, a physician shall examine. If the abscess has spread in the skin, the physician need not look for depigmented hair: the patient is infected. But if the abscess has remained unchanged in color, and pigmented hair has grown in it, the abscess is healed; the patient is noninfectious. The physician shall pronounce the patient noninfectious.
"'If an individual has the dermis intermittently discolored, and a physician sees that the discolorations of the skin is no more than a lack of pigment, it is vitiligo affecting the skin; the patient is noninfectious.
"'If a man loses the hair of his head and becomes bald, he is noninfectious. If he loses the hair on the front part of his head and becomes bald at the forehead, he is noninfectious. But if a white affection streaked with red appears on the bald part in the front or at the back of the head, it is a infectious eruption that is spreading over the bald part in the front or at the back of the head. A physician shall examine him: if the swollen affection on the bald part in the front or at the back of his head is white streaked with red, like the leprosy of body skin in appearance, the man is leprous; he is infectious. The physician shall pronounce him infectious; the patient has the affection on his head.
"'As for people with a leprous affection, their clothes shall be rent, their heads shall be left bare, and they shall cover over their upper lip; and they shall call out, "Leprosy! Leprosy!" They shall be infected as long as the disease is on them. Being infected, they shall dwell apart; their dwelling shall be outside the camp.
"'When an eruptive affection occurs in a cloth of wool or linen fabric, in the warp or in the woof of the linen or the wool, or in a skin or in anything made of skin; if the affection in the cloth or the skin, in the warp or the woof, or in any article of skin, is streaky green or red, it is an eruptive affection. It shall be shown to a professional; and the specialist, after examining the affection, shall isolate the affected article for seven days. On the seventh day the scientist shall examine the affection: if the affection has spread in the cloth -- whether in the warp or the woof, or in the skin, for whatever purpose the skin may be used -- the affection is a malignant eruption; it is infectious. The cloth -- whether warp or woof in wool or linen, or any article of skin -- in which the affection is found, shall be burned, for it is a malignant eruption; it shall be consumed in fire. But if the scientist sees that the affection in the cloth -- whether in warp or in woof, or in any article of skin -- has not spread, the professional shall order the affected article washed, and shall isolate it for another seven days. And if, after the affected article has been washed, the scientist sees that the affection has not changed color even though it has not spread, it is infectious. It shall be consumed in fire; it is a fret, whether on its inner side or on its outer side. But if the specialist sees that the affected part, after it has been washed, is faded, the professional shall cut it out from the cloth or skin, whether in the warp or in the woof; and if it occurs again in the cloth -- whether in warp or in woof -- or in any article of skin, it is a wild growth; the affected article shall be consumed in fire. If, however, the affection disappears from the cloth -- warp or woof -- or from any article of skin that has been washed, it shall be washed again, and it shall be noninfectious.
"'Such is the procedure for eruptive affections of cloth, woolen or linen, in warp or in woof, or of any article of skin, for pronouncing it noninfectious or infectious.'"
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