Leviticus 14:53

And when he has released the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house, and it shall be justly cleansed.

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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 shall purify it as much with the blood of the sparrow as with the living water, and with the living sparrow, and the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the vermillion.

54This is the law of every kind of leprosy and plague:

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Cross References

Leviticus 14:20and place it upon the altar with its libations, and the man will be duly cleansed.

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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