Leviticus 14:51
He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated, and in the living water, and he shall sprinkle the house seven times:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
50And having immolated one sparrow In an earthen vessel over living waters,
Cross References
Psalms 51:7For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.
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 →