⁶ As for the live bird, he shall take it together with ^(A)the cedar wood and the ^[a]scarlet string and the ^(B)hyssop, and he shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the ^[b]running water.

^7 (A)He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and he shall let the live bird go free over the open field.