Liturgical fragment (Gaster Hebrew MS 2102/1)

Bright spots and scars, swellings and scabs • boils and burns, and lesions of the
head and the beard; baldness on the back and the front of the head, and all white skin spots. To purify according to the law of
wool and linen garments, including the warp and the woof. Instructions to tear, to burn,
or to wash a second time • These are the laws from the servant of God:
to be cast outside the camp; to purify the afflicted personMetzora; often translated as a leper, this refers to a person afflicted with Tzara’at, a skin condition traditionally viewed as a physical manifestation of a spiritual transgression. with cedar wood and hyssop
and crimson wool; the slaughtering of one bird and the release of the other.
Also the shaving of the hair on the head, the beard, and the eyebrows •
The tips of the thumbs and toes, the pouring of oils, and the lobe
of the ear; to cleanse original: "ramim" (heights); likely a poetic reference to the birds used in the ritual or a scribal variation for the word blood. the walls of houses to purify them
from the plague; and the dust of demolition shall be thrown outside •
This is the impurity of bodily discharge and carcasses, the menstruant, and the woman in childbirth.
For purification, one brings an offering to ease the heart of a man. But if one sees
a seminal emission, he shall enter the water as evening approaches • Upon