Leviticus 14:53

But he will let the living bird go out of the town into the open country; so he will take away sin from the house and it will be clean.

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In The King James Version

But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.

In Context

52And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread.

54This is the law for all signs of the leper's disease and for skin diseases;

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Cross References

Leviticus 14:20And the priest is to have the burned offering and the meal offering burned on the altar; and the priest will take away his sin and he will be clean.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:34-54

33 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: 36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward… Read the whole commentary →

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