I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. ¹ 

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

Set the empty pot on the coals, ¹  until it becomes hot and its copper glows, until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot ²  is consumed.

On both sides of the river’s banks, every kind of tree will grow for food. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail, but they will bear fruit every month, because their water source flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.” ¹