49. To cleanse the house, the priest will take two birds, cedarwood, crimson yarn, and hyssop.
50. He will slaughter one bird over fresh water in a pottery jar.
51. He will then take the cedarwood, hyssop, and crimson yarn, along with the wild bird, and will dip all of this into the fresh water and into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered. He will then sprinkle the house seven times.
52. In this way, the priest will cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the wild bird, the cedarwood, the hyssop, and the crimson yarn.
53. Then he will release the wild bird outside the city into the countryside. In this way, he will make reconciliation for the house, and it will be clean.
54. This concludes the Instruction concerning every infection of skin disease: for scabies,
55. for skin disease on clothing or in houses,
56. and for swelling, scabs, or shiny spots,
57. in order to determine when it is unclean or clean. This concludes the Instruction concerning skin disease.