Leviticus 14:30-56

³⁰Then the priest must sacrifice the doves or the pigeons, whichever that person has brought.

³¹One will be an offering for sin and the other will be completely burned on the altar, along with the offering of grain. By doing that, the priest will declare that the person is no longer guilty for having sinned.

³²Those are the regulations for anyone who has a contagious skin disease and who is poor and cannot afford the usual offerings, in order that he can be with people again.”

³³Yahweh also said to Aaron and Moses/me,

³⁴“I am about to give you Canaan land to belong to your people permanently. When you enter that land, there will be times when I cause/allow mildew to appear inside one of your houses.

³⁵If that happens, the owner of that house must go to the priest and tell him, ‘There is something in my house that looks like mildew.’

³⁶Then the priest will say to him, ‘Take everything out of the house before I enter the house to examine the mildew. If you do not do that, I will declare that everything in the house is contaminated.’

³⁷After the owner takes everything outside of his house, the priest will go in and inspect the house. If the mildew has caused greenish or reddish spots/depressions on the walls that seem to be deeper than only on the surface of the walls,

³⁸the priest will go outside the house and lock it up for seven days.

³⁹On the seventh day, he must go into the house and inspect it again. If the mildew on the walls has spread,

⁴⁰the priest will tell someone to tear out and throw in the dump outside the town all the stones in the walls that have mildew on them.

⁴¹Then the owner must scrape all the walls inside the house, and everything that is scraped off must be thrown into a dump outside the town.

⁴²Then the owner must get new/other stones to replace the ones that had mildew on them, and take new clay and plaster to cover the stones in the walls of the house.

⁴³If the mildew appears again in the house after that is done,

⁴⁴the priest must go and examine the house again. If the mildew has spread inside the house, it will be clear that the mildew is the kind that destroys houses, and no one will be allowed to live in it.

⁴⁵It must be completely torn down—the stones, the timber and the plaster—and all those things must be thrown into a dump outside the town.

⁴⁶Anyone who goes into that house while it is locked up will not be allowed to be with other people until sunset of that day.

⁴⁷Anyone who sleeps in that house or eats in that house during that time must wash his clothes.

⁴⁸But when the priest comes to examine the house after it has been plastered, if the mildew has not spread, he shall declare that people may live in it, because the mildew is gone.

⁴⁹But before people are allowed to live in it, the priest must take two small birds and some cedar wood and some red/scarlet yarn and some hyssop.

⁵⁰He must kill one of the birds while holding it over a clay pot containing water from a spring.

⁵¹Then he must take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the red/scarlet yarn, and the other/living bird, and dip them into the blood of the dead bird, and sprinkle some of that blood on the house seven times.

⁵²By doing all those things he will cause the house to be acceptable to be lived in again.

⁵³Then he must release the other bird and allow it to fly away. By doing that, he will finish the ritual for causing the house to be acceptable for people to live in it again.

⁵⁴Those are the regulations for contagious diseases, for itching sores,

⁵⁵for mildew DOU on clothes or in a house,

⁵⁶and for swellings, rashes, or bright spots on sores,