He [then] comes to send away the living bird. He does not turn his face to the sea, nor to the city, nor to the desert, as stated: And he shall send the living bird out of the city toward a field. He [then] comes to shave the metzora. [The Kohen] passes a razor over [the metzora’s] entire body, and [the metzora then] washes his clothes, and immerses. [The metzora] no longer causes tumah by entering, but he still causes tumah like a sheretz. He [is permitted to] enter within the wall, [but] he is banned from his house for seven days, and he is prohibited from marital relations.

On the seventh day he shaves a second shaving like the first shaving, washes his clothing, and immerses. He becomes tahor from causing tumah like a sheretz, but is [still tamei] as one who immersed on that day; he is permitted to eat the tithe. When the sun sets, he is permitted to eat terumah. When he brings his atonement, he is permitted to eat kodashim. Thus, there are three stages of becoming tahor for a metzora and three stages of becoming tahor for a woman after childbirth.