⁵²“The priest will use the blood and the water to make the house pure. He will use the live bird to make it pure. He will also use the cedar wood, the hyssop plant and the bright red yarn to make it pure.

⁵³“Then he must let the live bird go free in the open fields outside the town. In that way he will make the house pure. It will be ‘clean.’ ”

⁵⁴Those are the rules for skin diseases. They apply to itches. ⁵⁵They apply to mold in clothes or in houses. ⁵⁶They also apply to swellings, rashes or bright red spots on the skin. ⁵⁷Use those rules to decide whether something is “clean” or not.

Those are the rules for skin diseases and for mold.

Rules About Liquid Body Wastes

15The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, ²“Speak to the people of Israel. Tell them, ‘Suppose liquid waste is flowing out of a man’s body. That liquid is not “clean.” ³It does not matter whether it continues to flow out of his body or is blocked. It will make him “unclean.” Here is how his liquid body waste will make him “unclean.”

⁴“ ‘Any bed the man who has the flow of liquid body waste lies on will not be “clean.” Anything he sits on will not be “clean.”

⁵“ ‘If any of you touches the man’s bed, you must wash your clothes. You must take a bath. You will be “unclean” until evening.

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