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Leviticus 14:53 KJV
Leviticus · chapter 14 · verse 53
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.Leviticus 14:53 · King James Version
Leviticus 14:53 in context
51And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and 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:
52And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53But 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.
54This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
55And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- atonementkâpharto coverH3722 →
- livingchayaliveH2416 →
- fieldssâdeha fieldH7704 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- birdtsippôwra little birdH6833 →
- cityʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
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This is the law concerning the leprosy in a house. Now that they were in the wilderness they dwelt in tents, and had no houses, and therefore the law is made only an appendix to the former laws concerning the leprosy, because it related, not to their present state, but to their future settlement.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 33-53