Text -- Leviticus 14:49 (NET)

14:49 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,

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lev 14:49

¹ tn The pronoun “he” refers to the priest mentioned in the previous verse.

² tn Regarding these ritual materials, see the note on v. 4 above.

³ tn Regarding the Piel of חָטָא (khata’, cf. v. 52) meaning to “decontaminate” or “perform a decontamination,” see the notes on Lev 8:15 and 9:15.

sn In Lev 8:15, for example, the “sin offering” is used to “decontaminate” the burnt offering altar. As argued above (see the note on v. 7 above), these ritual materials and the procedures performed with them do not constitute a “sin offering” (contrast vv. 19 and 31 above). In fact, no sin offering was required for the purification of a house.