All ritually clean birds you may eat.

Then ¹  he is to take the live bird along with the piece of cedar wood, the scrap of crimson fabric, and the twigs of hyssop, and he is to dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird slaughtered over the fresh water,

where the birds make nests, near the evergreens in which the herons live. ¹ 

the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents ¹  of the seas.

I keep track of ¹  every bird in the hills, and the insects ²  of the field are mine.

Surely it is futile to spread ¹  a net in plain sight of ²  any bird, ³ 

He must then take the piece of cedar wood, the twigs of hyssop, the scrap of crimson fabric, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

So he is to decontaminate the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the piece of cedar wood, the twigs of hyssop, and the scrap of crimson fabric,

any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

For ¹  it has been hidden from the eyes of every living creature, and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.

you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

They will all be left ¹  for the birds of the hills and the wild animals; ²  the birds will eat them during the summer, and all the wild animals will eat them during the winter.

We escaped with our lives, ¹  like a bird from a hunter’s snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.

At the fords of the Arnon ¹  the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest. ² 

The priest will then command that one bird be slaughtered ¹  into a clay vessel over fresh water. ² 

Then he ¹  is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop ²  to decontaminate ³  the house,

and he is to slaughter one bird into a clay vessel over fresh water. ¹ 

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, ¹  and like a bird from the trap ²  of the fowler.

Like a bird that wanders ¹  from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home. ² 

I looked and saw that there were no more people, ¹  and that all the birds in the sky had flown away.