Like long rows of palms Or gardens beside a river, Like aloes planted by the LORD Or cedars beside the water.

You sent your messengers to boast to me that with all your chariots you had conquered the highest mountains of Lebanon. You boasted that there you cut down the tallest cedars and the finest cypress trees and that you reached the deepest parts of the forests.

The righteous will flourish like palm trees; they will grow like the cedars of Lebanon.

Take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the bowl containing the animal's blood, and wipe the blood on the doorposts and the beam above the door of your house. Not one of you is to leave the house until morning.

In the first case, someone who is ritually clean is to take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, everything in it, and the people who were there. In the second case, someone who is ritually clean is to sprinkle the water on those who had touched the human bone or the dead body or the grave.

Remove my sin, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

First, Moses proclaimed to the people all the commandments as set forth in the Law. Then he took the blood of bulls and goats, mixed it with water, and sprinkled it on the book of the Law and all the people, using a sprig of hyssop and some red wool.

Then God commanded, "Let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds."

He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number.

Then God commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life: domestic and wild, large and small"---and it was done.