# if you wash the item This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "if the owner washes it" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]]) # then the item must be washed This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "then the owner must wash it" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]]) # it will be clean Something that God has declared to be fit for people to touch is spoken of as if it were physically clean. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])