53. He shall then let the living bird fly away over the countryside outside the city. Thus he shall make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
54. This is the ritual for every kind of human scaly infection and scall,
55. and for fungus diseases in garments and houses—
56. for marks, lesions and blotches—
57. to give direction when there is a state of uncleanness and when a state of cleanness. This is the ritual for scaly infection.