³³The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, ³⁴“When you come to Canaan that I am going to give to you, mildew may appear in a house. ³⁵The owner of that house must come and tell the priest that there is something that looks like mildew in his house.

³⁶“Before the priest examines the house, he will order everything taken out of it so that nothing in the house will become unclean. Then the priest will go inside to examine the house. ³⁷He will examine the mildew area on the walls. If it is green and red in sunken areas that are deeper than the rest of the wall, ³⁸the priest will go out to the door of the house and close up the house for seven days. ³⁹On the seventh day the priest will go back and examine it again. If the mildew in the walls of the house has spread, ⁴⁰the priest must order the stones that have the mildew to be torn out and thrown outside the city in an unclean place. ⁴¹He must have the entire inside of the house scraped. The plaster dust scraped off the walls must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city. ⁴²The stones must be replaced, and the house must be plastered again. ⁴³If the mildew develops again in the house after all this, ⁴⁴the priest will examine it one more time. If it is a spreading type of mildew, the house is unclean. ⁴⁵The house—stones, wood, and all the plaster—must be torn down and taken to an unclean place outside the city. ⁴⁶Whoever goes into the house any time it is closed up will be unclean until evening. ⁴⁷Whoever sleeps or eats in the house must wash his clothes. ⁴⁸But if the priest comes and makes an examination and the mildew has not spread in the house after it is plastered again, the priest must declare the house clean. The mildew is gone.

⁴⁹“The priest must take two birds, cedar wood, red yarn, and a hyssop sprig and use them to make the house clean. ⁵⁰He must kill the one bird over a clay bowl containing fresh water. ⁵¹He must take the cedar wood, the hyssop sprig, the red yarn, and the living bird and dip them in the fresh water containing the blood of the bird that was killed. He must sprinkle the house seven times. ⁵²So he must use the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the living bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red yarn to make the house clean. ⁵³Then he will let the living bird fly from the city into the open country. He will make peace with the Lord for the house, and it will be clean.

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