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The Cleansed Leper and the Day of Atonement
The body of the cleansed leper needs to be reconsecrated as a member of the people after being defiled on account of its corpse like quality. As in the case of the laws concerning childbirth, provision is made for those who cannot afford the more expensive offering. The rest of the chapter gives laws for leprous houses, besides persons garments and houses could also be infected with leprosy. This probably suggests that we're talking about a number of conditions that are related in their appearance, but different in their underlying causes. A question to consider, how might we see in jesus cleansing of the temple and the gospels, some sort of connection to the cleansing of le