³³Then^x Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ³⁴“When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am about to give to you as your possession, and I put mildew^y in a house in the land of your possession, ³⁵then^z the one who owns the house^a shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘It appears to me that an infection is in the house.’ ³⁶And the priest shall issue a command, and they shall clear out the house before the priest comes to examine the infection, so that^b all that is in the house might not become unclean; and afterward^c the priest shall go to examine the house. ³⁷And he shall examine the infection, and if^d the infection on the house’s wall has yellowish-green or reddish spots and its appearance is deeper than the surface of^e the wall, ³⁸then^f the priest shall go out from the house to the house’s entrance, and he shall confine^g the house for seven days. ³⁹And the priest shall return on the seventh day, and he shall examine the infection,^h and ifⁱ the infection has spread on the house’s wall, ⁴⁰the priest shall issue a command and they shall remove the stones on which is the infection, and they shall throw them outside the city^j on an unclean place. ⁴¹Then^k they^l shall scrape off the plaster^m from all around the house, and they shall pour out the plaster,ⁿ which they scraped off, outside the city^o on an unclean place. ⁴²And they shall take other stones, and they shall put^p them in place of those stones, and they^q shall take other plaster,^r and they^s shall replaster^t the house.

⁴³“But^u if the infection should return and it breaks out in the house after they^v have removed the stones and after scraping off the plaster^w of the house and after it has been replastered,^x ⁴⁴then^y the priest shall come, and he shall examine the infection,^z and if^a the infection has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew^b in the house—it is unclean. ⁴⁵So^c he shall break down the house, its stones and its wood and all of the house’s plaster,^d and he shall bring it all^e outside the city^f to an unclean place. ⁴⁶And the person who enters into the house during all the days that he^g confined^h it shall become unclean until the evening. ⁴⁷And the person who sleeps in the house must wash his garments, and the person who eats in the house shall wash his garments.

⁴⁸“And if the priest comes again and examines the houseⁱ and if^j the infection has not spread in the house after being replastered,^k then^l the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the infection is healed. ⁴⁹And he shall take two birds and cedar wood^m and a crimson threadⁿ and hyssop to cleanse the house; ⁵⁰and he shall slaughter the first bird over fresh water on a clay vessel. ⁵¹Then^o he shall take the cedar wood^p and the hyssop and the crimson thread^q and the living bird, and he shall dip them in the slaughtered bird’s blood and in the fresh water, and he shall spatter them^r on the house seven times. ⁵²Thus^s he shall purify the house with the bird’s blood and with the fresh water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood^t and with the hyssop and with the crimson thread.^u ⁵³And he shall send the living bird outside the city^v into the open field;^w and so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.

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Footnotes

xOr “And”
yLiterally “an infection of skin disease”
zOr “and”
aLiterally “the house is for him”
bOr “and”
cLiterally “after thus”
dLiterally “look” or “behold”
eImplied by the context
fOr “and”
gOr “close up”
hThe direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
iLiterally “look” or “behold”
jLiterally “to from an outside place of the city”
kOr “And”
lHebrew “he”
mThe direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
nSee HALOT 862 s.v. 3.b
oLiterally “to from an outside place of the city”
pLiterally “bring”
qHebrew “he”
rSee HALOT 862 s.v. 3.b
sHebrew “he”
tImplied by the context; Hebrew “plaster”
uOr “And”
vHebrew “he”
wThe direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
xImplied by the context; or “plaster”
yOr “and”
zThe direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
aLiterally “look” or “behold”
bLiterally “infectious disease”
cOr “And”
dSee HALOT 862 s.v. 3.b
eThe direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
fLiterally “to from an outside place of the city”
gThat is, the priest
hOr “closed up”
iThe direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
jLiterally “look” or “behold”
kImplied by the context; or “plaster”
lOr “and”
mLiterally “wood of cedar”
nLiterally “crimson thread of the worm”
oOr “And”
pLiterally “wood of cedar”
qLiterally “the crimson thread of the worm”
rThe direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
sOr “And”
tLiterally “wood of cedar”
uLiterally “the crimson thread of the worm”
vLiterally “to from an outside place of the city”
wLiterally “to the faces of the field”