If the person is healthy, then the priest will tell him to do these things: That person must get two living clean [193] birds. He must also get a piece of cedar wood, a piece of red cloth, and a hyssop [194] plant.
Leviticus 14:5 - Easy To Read Version Then the priest must order one bird to be killed in a clay bowl over running water. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over fresh, running water. American Standard Version (1901) and the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. Common English Bible The priest will order that one bird be slaughtered over fresh water in a pottery jar. Catholic Public Domain Version And he shall order that one of the sparrows be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he shall command one of the sparrows to be immolated in an earthen vessel over living waters. |
If the person is healthy, then the priest will tell him to do these things: That person must get two living clean [193] birds. He must also get a piece of cedar wood, a piece of red cloth, and a hyssop [194] plant.
The priest must take the other bird that is still alive and the piece of cedar wood, the piece of red cloth, and the hyssop plant. He must dip the living bird and the other things in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
Then the priest will take some special water and put it in a clay jar. The priest will put some dirt from the floor of the Holy Tent into the water.
It is true that Christ was weak when he was killed on the cross. But he lives now by God’s power. And it is true that we are weak in Christ. But for you we will be alive in Christ by God’s power.
We have this treasure \{from God\}. But we are only like clay jars that hold the treasure. This shows that this great power is from God, not from us.
We know that \{our body\}—the tent we live in here on earth—will be destroyed. But when that happens, God will have a home for us to live in. It will not be a home made by men. It will be a home in heaven that will continue forever.
Those children are people with physical bodies. So Jesus himself became like those people and had the same experiences people have. Jesus did this so that, by dying, he could destroy the one who has the power of death. That one is the devil.