February 21: Leviticus 14:33 – Leviticus 16:34

Laws for Cleansing Houses – Leviticus 14:33–57

• God tells Moses and Aaron that when they come to the land of Canaan, He will put a case of leprous disease in a house there. The priest will go and inspect the house and then close it up for seven days if the disease is deeper than on the surface, then he will inspect the house again. If the disease has spread, they will take the affected stone and throw them in an unclean place, and remove all the plaster and dump that in an unclean place. The house will be replastered.
• If disease again breaks out in the house, the house will be broken down and its materials taken to an unclean place. If the disease has not spread, the house will be declared clean. The house will be cleansed using two small birds, cedarwood scarlet yarn, and hyssop.

Laws about Bodily Discharges – Leviticus 15

• God gives Moses instructions about bodily discharges, including serious cases of male discharge, emission of semen, emission of semen with sexual intercourse, female menstruation, and cases of serious female discharge. After their cleansing per God's instructions, the unclean people are to bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering. The people will then be considered clean.

The Day of Atonement – Leviticus 16

• After the death of Aaron's sons, God tells Moses to instruct Aaron not to come into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he won't die, because God will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat. Aaron is told to come into the Holy Place with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. He will dress as instructed in the holy linen garments and take from the people two male goats, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.
• Aaron will offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and his house, then take the two goats and cast lots over them, one for God and one for Azazel. The goat on which the lot fell for God will be used as a sin offering, and the other will be sent away into the wilderness of Azazel.
• Then Aaron will go into the ten of meeting, take off his special garments, bathe, and put on his previous clothing. He will offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering for the people to make atonement for all.
• It will be a statute that on the tenth day of the seventh month, the people will do no work and will celebrate the day of atonement. The priest, wearing his holy linen garments, will make atonement for the holy sanctuary, the tent of meeting, the altar, the priests, and all of the people.