Leviticus 14:49
 Leviticus 14:49 
New International Version (©2011)
To purify the house he is to take two birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop.

New Living Translation (©2007)
To purify the house the priest must take two birds, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"To cleanse the house then, he shall take two birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house,

International Standard Version (©2012)
In order to cleanse the house, he is to take two birds, some cedar wood, two crimson threads, and some hyssop.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then he is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop to decontaminate the house,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"The priest must take two birds, cedar wood, red yarn, and a hyssop sprig and use them to make the house clean.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

American King James Version
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

American Standard Version
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And for the purification thereof he shall take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

Darby Bible Translation
And he shall take, to purge the house from the defilement, two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop;

English Revised Version
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

Webster's Bible Translation
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

World English Bible
To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

Young's Literal Translation
'And he hath taken for the cleansing of the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:33-53 The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it remain in the house, the whole must be pulled down. The owner had better be without a dwelling, than live in one that was infected. The leprosy of sin ruins families and churches. Thus sin is so interwoven with the human body, that it must be taken down by death.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he shall take to cleanse the house,.... The priest, or by his fellow priest, as Aben Ezra, though some interpret it of the master of the house; in Leviticus 14:49, an account is given of the manner of cleansing a leprous house, which is the same with that of cleansing a leprous man, see notes on Leviticus 14:4-7,

Two birds. The birds here indeed are not described as "alive and clean", Leviticus 14:4; but both are plainly implied and the house is said to be cleansed with the blood of the slain bird, as well as with the living bird; and it was the upper door post of the house which was sprinkled seven times with it, but there were no sacrifices offered; in this case, as in the cleansing of the leper, the atonement for it was made by the other rites, which were sufficient to render it habitable again, and free for use, either of the owner or any other person:

and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. See Gill on Leviticus 14:4.


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Cleansing a Home
48And if the priest shall come in, and look on it, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the house, after the house was plastered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. 49And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: 50And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: …

Leviticus 14:4 the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the person to be cleansed.
Leviticus 14:48 "But if the priest comes to examine it and the mold has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the defiling mold is gone.
Leviticus 14:50 He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.