Imamat 14:6

14:6 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,

Mazmur 51:9

51:9 Hide your face ²  from my sins!

Wipe away ³  all my guilt!

[14:6]  ¹ tc Heb “the live bird he [i.e., the priest] shall take it.” Although the MT has no ו (vav, “and”) at the beginning of this clause, a few medieval Hebrew mss and Smr have one and the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate translate as if it is there. The “but” in the present translation reflects this text critical background, the object-first word order in the clause with the resumptive pronoun at the end, and the obvious contrast between the slaughtered bird in v. 5 and the live bird in v. 6.

[51:9]  ² sn In this context Hide your face from my sins means “Do not hold me accountable for my sins.”

[51:9]  ³ tn See the note on the similar expression “wipe away my rebellious acts” in v. 1.