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Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies.

And it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Chapter 14, verse 1.

Now, the Lord spoke to Moses saying,

This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing.

So now we're talking about, we're done with diagnosis for now.

Yay.

Now we're on the, okay, so now they've healed up, and they want to be restored. What do we do?

Okay, he shall be brought to the priest. The priest shall go out of the camp and the priest shall examine him.

And indeed, if the leper's infection is healed in the leper, the priest shall give orders to take

for the one declared clean, two small birds, live and clean,

and also cedarwood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

Then the priest must give orders that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water.

This is going fascinating places, isn't it?

You didn't see this cut it.

As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet and hyssop,

and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird killed over the running water.

So this is why we kill the bird in the earthen vessel, right, in the clay pot

is so that the blood gets collected.

Okay, the blood of that bird gets collected there.

Got two birds.

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