⁴ the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop^(A) be brought for the person to be cleansed.^(B)

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

⁶ He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.^(A)

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 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.

¹⁸ Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop,^(A) dip it in the water and sprinkle^(B) the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave^(C) or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.

⁴⁹ To purify the house he is to take two birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop.^{(A) 50} He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.^{(B) 51} Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop,^(C) the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.^{(D) 52} He shall purify the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.

⁸ But if she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons,^(A) one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering.^(B) In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.^(C)’”