Leviticus 14:53 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵³ and he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field; so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵³ But he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field; so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵³ 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.

Common English Bible

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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵³ And when he has released the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house, and it shall be justly cleansed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵³ And when he hath let go the sparrow to fly freely away into the field, he shall pray for the house: and it shall be rightly cleansed.

Leviticus 14:53 Cross References

Leviticus 14:20

and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement on his behalf, and he shall be clean.

Leviticus 14:52

Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the fresh water, and with the living bird, and with the cedarwood and hyssop and crimson yarn,

Leviticus 14:54

“This is the rule for any defiling disease: for an itch,

Leviticus 14:7

He shall sprinkle it seven times upon the one who is to be cleansed of the defiling disease; then he shall pronounce him clean, and he shall let the living bird go into the open field.