- Hebrew name
- מְצֹרָע
- Book
- Leviticus
- Verses
- Lv 14,1–15,33
- Haftara
- 2 R 7,3–20
The entire procedure has an end: to bring back in. The purification rite is a rite of return to the camp, and it is this movement, more than the exclusion, that the section describes at length. The haftara stages four men kept apart who discover the army's flight and save the city — those set aside bring news of salvation.