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He must take the living bird and the cedar wood[a] and the crimson thread[b] and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird in the bird’s blood slaughtered over the fresh water. And he shall spatter the blood[c] seven times on the one who presents himself for cleansing from the infectious skin disease, and he shall declare him clean, and he shall send the living bird into the open field.[d] Then[e] the one who presents himself for cleansing shall wash his garments, and he shall shave off all his hair, and he shall wash himself in the water; thus[f] he shall be clean, and afterward he shall enter the camp, but[g] he shall stay outside his tent[h] for seven days.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 14:6 Literally “wood of cedar”
  2. Leviticus 14:6 Literally “the crimson thread of the worm”
  3. Leviticus 14:7 The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Leviticus 14:7 Literally “toward the faces of the field”
  5. Leviticus 14:8 Or “And”
  6. Leviticus 14:8 Or “and”
  7. Leviticus 14:8 Or “and”
  8. Leviticus 14:8 Literally “from an outside place of his tent”