1. The Lord gave Moses
2. the following regulations about the ritual purification of a person cured of a dreaded skin disease. On the day he is to be pronounced clean, he shall be brought to the priest,
3. and the priest shall take him outside the camp and examine him. If the disease is healed,
4. the priest shall order two ritually clean birds to be brought, together with a piece of cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop.
5. Then the priest shall order one of the birds to be killed over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water.
6. He shall take the other bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the red cord, and the hyssop, in the blood of the bird that was killed.