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51 Then[a] he shall take the cedar wood[b] and the hyssop and the crimson thread[c] and the living bird, and he shall dip them in the slaughtered bird’s blood and in the fresh water, and he shall spatter them[d] on the house seven times. 52 Thus[e] he shall purify the house with the bird’s blood and with the fresh water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood[f] and with the hyssop and with the crimson thread.[g] 53 And he shall send the living bird outside the city[h] into the open field;[i] and so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 14:51 Or “And”
  2. Leviticus 14:51 Literally “wood of cedar”
  3. Leviticus 14:51 Literally “the crimson thread of the worm”
  4. Leviticus 14:51 The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  5. Leviticus 14:52 Or “And”
  6. Leviticus 14:52 Literally “wood of cedar”
  7. Leviticus 14:52 Literally “the crimson thread of the worm”
  8. Leviticus 14:53 Literally “to from an outside place of the city”
  9. Leviticus 14:53 Literally “to the faces of the field”