Leviticus 14:33-53

33The Lord further spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:

34“1When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put a spot of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession, 35then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like 2a spot of leprosy has become visible to me in the house.’ 36The priest shall then command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the spot, so that everything in the house need not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house. 37So he shall look at the spot, and if the spot on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the 3surface, 38the priest shall come out of the house, to the 4doorway, and 5quarantine the house for seven days. 39Then the priest shall return on the seventh day and 6make an inspection. If the spot has indeed spread on the walls of the house, 40the priest shall order them to pull out the stones with the spot on them and throw them away 7at an unclean place outside the city. 41And he shall have the house scraped all around 8inside, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city. 42Then they shall take other stones and replace the discarded stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.

43“If, however, the spot breaks out again in the house after he has pulled out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered, 44then the priest shall come in and 9make an inspection. If he sees that the spot has indeed spread in the house, it is 10a malignant spot in the house; it is unclean. 45The owner shall therefore tear down the house, its stones, its timbers, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an 11unclean place. 46Moreover, whoever goes into the house during the time that he has 12quarantined it, becomes 13unclean until evening. 47Likewise, whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

48“If, on the other hand, the priest comes in and 14makes an inspection and the spot has not indeed spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the spot has 15not reappeared. 49To cleanse the house then, he shall take 16two birds, cedar wood, a 17scarlet string, and hyssop, 50and he shall slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over 18running water. 51Then he shall take the cedar wood, the 19hyssop, and the 20scarlet string, with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird as well as in the 21running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. 52So he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the 22running water, along with the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the 23scarlet string. 53However, he shall let the live bird go free outside the city into the open field. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”