¹³ “‘When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days^(A) for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean.^(B)

¹⁹ Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.

⁶ He is to dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle^(A) some of it seven times before the Lord,^(B) in front of the curtain of the sanctuary.^(C)

¹⁹ When Moses had proclaimed^(A) every command of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves,^(B) together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people.^(C)

²² In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood,^(A) and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.^(B)

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.^(A) Are you not much more valuable than they?^(B)

⁶ The priest is to take some cedar wood, hyssop^(A) and scarlet wool^(B) and throw them onto the burning heifer.

²² “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will take a shoot^(A) from the very top of a cedar and plant it; I will break off a tender sprig from its topmost shoots and plant it on a high and lofty mountain.^(B)

³³ He spoke about plant life, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop^(A) that grows out of walls. He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish.

²² Take a bunch of hyssop,^(A) dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood^(B) on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.