Leviticus 14:49
But before people are allowed to live in it, the priest must take two small birds and some cedar wood and some red/scarlet yarn and some hyssop.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
In Context
50He must kill one of the birds while holding it over a clay pot containing water from a spring.
Cross References
Leviticus 14:4the priest will say that someone must bring two living birds that are acceptable to Yahweh, along with some cedar wood, some scarlet/red yarn, and some sprigs of ◄hyssop/a very leafy plant►.
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 →