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Next, he will sprinkle you seven times with the blood and say, “You are now clean.” Finally, he will release the bird and let it fly away.

After this you must wash your clothes, shave your entire body, and take a bath before you are completely clean. You may move back into camp, but you must not enter your tent for seven days. Then you must once again shave your head, face, and eyebrows, as well as the hair on the rest of your body. Finally, wash your clothes and take a bath, and you will be completely clean.

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Seven times(A) he shall sprinkle(B) the one to be cleansed of the defiling disease, and then pronounce them clean. After that, he is to release the live bird in the open fields.(C)

“The person to be cleansed must wash their clothes,(D) shave off all their hair and bathe with water;(E) then they will be ceremonially clean.(F) After this they may come into the camp,(G) but they must stay outside their tent for seven days. On the seventh day(H) they must shave off all their hair;(I) they must shave their head, their beard, their eyebrows and the rest of their hair. They must wash their clothes and bathe themselves with water, and they will be clean.(J)

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