⁵²Thus^s he shall purify the house with the bird’s blood and with the fresh water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood^t and with the hyssop and with the crimson thread.^u ⁵³And he shall send the living bird outside the city^v into the open field;^w and so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.

⁵⁴“This is the instruction for any infectious skin disease and for the diseased area of skin, ⁵⁵and for a mildew^x of the garment and for the house, ⁵⁶and for the swelling and for the epidermal eruption and for the spot, ⁵⁷to teach when something is unclean and when something is clean.^y This is the regulation of the infectious skin disease.”

Instructions About Bodily Discharges

15Then^a Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²“Speak to the Israelites,^b and you shall say to them, ‘Any man^c when a fluid discharge occurs^d from his body, his fluid discharge is unclean. ³And this becomes his uncleanness in his fluid discharge: whether his body secretes his fluid discharge or his body blocks his fluid discharge, it is his uncleanness. ⁴Any bed upon which the person who discharges lies down becomes unclean, and any object upon which he sits becomes unclean. ⁵And anyone who touches his bed must wash his garments and shall wash^e himself^f with water, and he shall be unclean until evening.

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Footnotes

sOr “And”
tLiterally “wood of cedar”
uLiterally “the crimson thread of the worm”
vLiterally “to from an outside place of the city”
wLiterally “to the faces of the field”
xLiterally “infectious skin disease”
yLiterally “on the day of the unclean and on the day of the clean”
aOr “And”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cLiterally “a man a man”
dOr “becomes” or “shall be”
eOr “bathe”
fThe direct object is supplied from context in the English translation