50. He will kill one bird in a clay bowl over running water.
51. Then he will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the piece of red cloth, and the living bird and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed over running water. Then he will sprinkle that blood on the house seven times.
52. In this way he will use these things to make the house clean.
53. He will go to an open field outside the city and let the living bird go free. In this way the priest will make the house pure. The house will be clean.”
54. These are the rules for any infection of leprosy,
55. for mildew on pieces of cloth or in a house.
56. These are the rules for swellings, rashes, or bright spots on the skin.
57. These rules teach when something is clean and when something is unclean. These are the rules about these kinds of disease.