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Outside the city, the priest releases the surviving bird into the open field. The accompanying verses preserve the earlier sacrifice, dipping, and seven sprinklings of the house.
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Leviticus 14:49-53

The house cleansed and the bird set free

Cleansing People and Houses · Leviticus 14

Story guide: Outside the city, the priest releases the surviving bird into the open field. The accompanying verses preserve the earlier sacrifice, dipping, and seven sprinklings of the house.

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49And he shall take, to purify the house from sin, two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.

50Then he shall slaughter the one bird into an earthenware vessel over living water.

51Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

52Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, with the living water, with the live bird, with cedar wood, with hyssop, and with scarlet yarn.

53Then he shall release the live bird outside the city into the open field. Thus he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.

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