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- Verse 6
Leviticus 14:6
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet , and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
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Gill's Exposition
As for the living bird, he shall take it,.... And dispose of it as after directed; for there was an use for that:
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