Leviticus 14:35-56

³⁵he schal go, whos the hous is, `and schal telle to the preest, and schal seie, It semeth to me, that as a wound of lepre is in myn hous.

³⁶And the preest schal comaunde, `that thei bere out of the hous alle thingis bifore that he entre in to it, `and me se where it be lepre, lest alle thingis that ben in the hows, be maad vnclene; and the preest schal entre aftirward, that he se the lepre of the hows.

³⁷And whanne he seeth in the wallis therof as litle valeis `foule bi palenesse, ethir bi reednesse, and lowere than the tother hiyere part,

³⁸he schal go out at the dore of the hows, and anoon he schal close it bi seuene daies.

³⁹And he schal turne ayen in the seuenthe day, and schal se it; if he fyndith that the lepre encreesside,

⁴⁰he schal comaunde that the stoonys be cast out, in whyche the lepre is, and that tho stonys be cast out of the citee in an vncleene place.

⁴¹Sotheli he schal comaunde that thilke hows be rasid with ynne bi cumpas, and that the dust of the rasyng be spreynt without the citee, in an vnclene place,

⁴²and that othere stoonys be put ayen for these, that ben takun awey, and that the hows be daubid with othir morter.

⁴³But if aftir that the stoonus ben takun awey, and the dust is borun out,

⁴⁴and othere erthe is daubid, the preest entrith, and seeth the lepre turned ayen, and the wallis spreynt with spottis, the lepre is stidfastly dwellynge, and the hows is vnclene;

⁴⁵which hows thei schulen destrye anoon, and thei schulen caste out of the citee, in an vnclene place, the stoonys therof, and the trees, and al the dust.

⁴⁶He that entrith in to the hous, whanne it is schit, schal be vnclene `til to euentid,

⁴⁷and he that slepith and etith ony thing therynne, schal waische hise clothis.

⁴⁸That if the preest entrith, and seeth that the lepre encreesside not in the hows, aftir that it was daubid the secounde tyme, he schal clense it; for heelthe is yoldun.

⁴⁹And in the clensyng therof he schal take twey sparewis, and `a tre of cedre, and `a reed threed, and isope.

⁵⁰And whanne o sparewe is offrid in a vessel of erthe, on quyk watris,

⁵¹he schal take the `tre of cedre, and ysope, and reed threed, and the quyk sparewe, and he schal dippe alle thingis in the blood of the sparewe offrid, and in lyuynge watris;

⁵²and he schal sprynge the hows seuen sithis; and he schal clense it as wel in the blood of the sparewe as in lyuynge watris, and in the quyk sparewe, and in the `tre of cedre, and in ysope, and `reed threed.

⁵³And whanne he hath left the sparewe to fle in to the feeld frely, he schal preye for the hows, and it schal be clensid riytfuli.

⁵⁴This is the lawe of al lepre,

⁵⁵and of smytyng, of lepre of clothis, and of housis,

⁵⁶of syngne of wounde, and of litle whelkis brekynge out, of spotte schynynge, and in colours chaungid in to dyuerse spices,