Leviticus 14:30-56

³⁰He must offer one of the doves or young pigeons, such as the person has been able to get—

³¹one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, along with the grain offering. Then the priest will make atonement for the one who is to be cleansed before Yahweh.

³²This is the law for a person in whom there is an infectious skin disease, who is not able to afford the standard offerings for his cleansing.”

³³Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

³⁴“When you have come into the land of Canaan which I gave to you as a possession, and if I put mildew that spreads in a house in the land of your possession,

³⁵then he who owns the house must come and tell the priest. He must say, 'There seems to me to be something like mildew in my house.'

³⁶Then the priest will command that they empty the house before he goes in to see the evidence of mildew, so that nothing in the house will be made unclean. Afterward the priest must go in to see the house.

³⁷He must examine the mildew to see if it is in the house walls, and to see whether it appears greenish or reddish in the depressions in the wall's surface.

³⁸If the house does have mildew, then the priest will go out of the house and shut the door to the house for seven days.

³⁹Then the priest will return again on the seventh day and examine it to see if the mildew has spread in the walls of the house.

⁴⁰If it has, then the priest will command that they take out the stones in which the mildew has been found and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.

⁴¹He will require all the inside walls of the house to be scraped, and they must take the contaminated material that is scraped off outside the city and dump it into the unclean place.

⁴²They must take other stones and put them in the place of the stones that were removed, and they must use new clay to plaster the house.

⁴³If mildew comes again and breaks out in the house in which the stones have been taken away and the walls have been scraped and then replastered,

⁴⁴then the priest must come in and examine the house to see if mildew has spread in the house. If it has, then it is harmful mildew, and the house is unclean.

⁴⁵The house must be torn down. The stones, timber, and all the plaster in the house must be carried away out of the city to the unclean place.

⁴⁶In addition, whoever goes into the house during the time it is closed up will be unclean until evening.

⁴⁷Anyone who slept in the house must wash his clothes, and anyone who ate in the house must wash his clothes.

⁴⁸If the priest enters the house to examine it to see whether the mildew has spread in the house after the house was plastered, then, if the mildew is gone, he will pronounce the house clean.

⁴⁹Then the priest must take two birds to cleanse the house, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop.

⁵⁰He will kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay jar.

⁵¹He will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the killed bird, into the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

⁵²He will cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water, with the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.

⁵³But he will let the live bird go out of the city into the open fields. In this way he must make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

⁵⁴This is the law for all types of infectious skin disease and things that cause such disease, and for an itch,

⁵⁵and for mildew in clothing and in a house,

⁵⁶for swelling, for a rash, and for a bright spot,