Leviticus 14:53

And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house, and it shall be rightly cleansed.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

54This is the law of every kind of leprosy and stroke.

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Cross References

Leviticus 14:20And put it on the altar with the libations thereof, and the man shall be rightly 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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