But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
For the house, that it may be no more infected; and for the people, to whom it belongs; that they may carefully avoid offending God, the avenger of all sin. Hebrew, "you shall make an atonement for the house "or for the sins of its inhabitants. (Haydock)