Leviticus 14:42-57

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,

⁵⁷to find out whether a person has a contagious disease or not, and whether people will still be permitted to touch their clothing or their house, or not.”