To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
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To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
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And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
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And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
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- 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.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain It seemeth that this was a lace or string…
It seemeth that this was a lace or string to bind the hyssop to the wood, and so was made a sprinkle: the Apostle to the Hebrews calleth it scarlet wool, Heb. 9:19.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And for a rising, and for a scab, and…
And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot. Which were three sorts of leprosy in the skin of man's flesh; See Gill on Lev 13:2.
Leviticus 14:57
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (49-53) And he shall take to cleanse the house.—The…
(49-53) And he shall take to cleanse the house.—The same rites are prescribed for cleansing the house which were performed in cleansing the healed leper (see Lev_14:3-7), with the exception of the sacrifices which the man brought afterwards, and which were necessarily absent in the case of the restored leprous house.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop
cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop
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the blood of the killed bird
This can be translated in active form. AT: "the blood of the bird that he killed" (See: Active or Passive)
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priest
clean
cedar
water
life
blood
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