Leviticus 14:53 BSB

Leviticus 14:53

Finally, he is to release the live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

BSB

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ASV

but he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field: so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

He shall let go the living bird - This might as well be called the scape-bird; as the goat, in Leviticus 16, is called the scape-goat. The rites are similar in both cases, and probably had nearly the same meaning. We have already taken occasion to observe (see the end of the preceding chapter at Lev 13:58 (note)) that the leprosy was strongly emblematical of sin; to which we may add here: - 1. That the leprosy was a disease generally acknowledged to be incurable by any human means; and therefore the Jews did not attempt to cure it.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

As a house could not contract any impurity in the sight of God, the "atonement" which the priest was to make for it must either have a reference to the sins of its occupants or to the ceremonial process appointed for its purification, the very same as that observed for a leprous person.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְשִׁלַּ֞ח	ve.shi.Lach	and he will let go	H7971 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַצִּפֹּ֧ר	ha.tzi.Por	the bird	H6833 →
הַֽחַיָּ֛ה	ha.chai.Yah	<the> living	H2416 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
מִח֥וּץ	mi.Chutz	from [the] outside	H2351 →
לָעִ֖יר	la.'Ir	of the city	H5892 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
פְּנֵ֣י	pe.Nei	[the] surface of	H6440 →
הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה	ha.sa.Deh	the field	H7704 →
וְכִפֶּ֥ר	ve.khi.Per	and he will make atonement	H3722 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הַבַּ֖יִת	ha.Ba.yit	the house	H1004 →
וְטָהֵֽר׃	ve.ta.Her	and it will be pure	H2891 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Leviticus 14:7
Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the skin disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and release the live bird into the open field.
leads to
- 2 Kings 5:14
  So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child,…
- Isaiah 52:15
  so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.
- 2 Kings 5:10
  Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
- Ezekiel 36:25
  I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- 1 Peter 1:2
  according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
Through
Leviticus 14:20
and offer it on the altar, with the grain offering, to make atonement for him, and he will be clean.
leads to
- Leviticus 14:10
  On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil,…
- Leviticus 14:8
  The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside…
- Ephesians 5:2
  and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

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