Leviticus 14:42-57

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,

⁵⁷to determine when any of these cases is unclean or when it is clean. This is the law for infectious skin diseases and mildew.”