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Leviticus 14:51 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. "
Leviticus 14:51
Verse in Context
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49 To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
50 He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water.
51 He shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52 He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;
53 but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”
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Leviticus 14:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"
Leviticus 14:2
"“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest,"
Leviticus 14:3
"and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,"
Leviticus 14:4
"then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop."
Leviticus 14:5
"The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water."
Leviticus 14:6
"As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water."
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