53
he will release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. Through this process, the priest will purify the house, and it will be ceremonially clean.
53
Then he is to release the live bird into the open countryside outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
Leviticus 14:53 Meaning and Commentary
Leviticus 14:53
But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields (See Gill on Leviticus 14:7).
51
Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52
He shall purify the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.
53
Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”
54
These are the regulations for any defiling skin disease, for a sore,