Leviticus 14:33-52

³³And the Lord spake to Moses and Aaron, and said,

³⁴When ye have entered into the land of Canaan, which I shall give to you into possession, if the wound of leprosy is in the houses,

³⁵he shall go, whose the house is, and shall tell to the priest, and shall say, It seemeth to me, that as it were a wound of leprosy is in mine house.

³⁶And the priest shall command, that they bear out of the house all things, before that he enter into it, that he may see whether it be leprosy, lest all things that be in the house be made unclean; and the priest shall enter afterward, that he see the leprosy of the house.

³⁷And when he seeth in the walls thereof as little valleys, or crevices, defouled with paleness, either with redness, and lower than the tother higher part,

³⁸he shall go out at the door of the house, and anon he shall enclose it by seven days.

³⁹And he shall turn again in the seventh day, and shall see it; and if he findeth that the leprosy hath increased,

⁴⁰he shall command that the stones be cast out, in which the leprosy is, and that those stones be cast out of the city into an unclean place.

⁴¹Soothly he shall command that that house be razed within by compass, and that the dust of the razing be sprinkled without the city, in an unclean place,

⁴²and that other stones be put again for these, that be taken away, and that the house be daubed with other mortar.

⁴³But if after that the stones be taken away, and the dust is borne out, and with other earth is daubed,

⁴⁴the priest entereth, and seeth the leprosy turned again, and the walls sprinkled with spots, the leprosy is then steadfastly dwelling, and the house is unclean;

⁴⁵which house they shall destroy anon, and they shall cast out of the city, into an unclean place, the stones thereof, and the wood, and all the dust.

⁴⁶He that entereth into the house, when it is shut, shall be unclean till to eventide,

⁴⁷and he that sleepeth in it, and eateth anything therein, he shall wash his clothes.

⁴⁸That if the priest entereth, and seeth that the leprosy increased not in the house, after that it was daubed the second time, the priest shall cleanse it; for health is yielded again thereto.

⁴⁹And to the cleansing thereof, the priest shall take two sparrows, and cedar wood, and vermilion, that is, a red thread, and hyssop.

⁵⁰And when one sparrow is offered in a vessel of earth, on quick waters,

⁵¹the priest shall take the cedar wood, and hyssop, and the red thread, and the quick sparrow, and he shall dip, or wet, all these things in the blood of the sparrow offered, or slain, and in the quick waters; and he shall sprinkle the house seven times;

⁵²and he shall cleanse it as well in the blood of the sparrow, as in the living waters, and in the quick sparrow, and in the cedar wood, and in the hyssop, and red thread.