³⁴“You will enter the land of Canaan. I am giving it to you as your own. When you enter it, suppose I put mold in one of your houses. And suppose the mold spreads. ³⁵Then the owner of that house must go and speak to the priest. He must say, ‘I’ve seen something that looks like mold in my house.’

³⁶“The priest must order everything to be taken out of the house. It must be done before he goes in to look carefully at the mold. If it is not done, the priest must announce that everything in the house is ‘unclean.’

“After the house is empty the priest must go in and check it. ³⁷He must look carefully at the mold that is on the walls. Suppose it looks as if it has green or red dents in it. And suppose the dents look as if they are behind the surface of the wall. ³⁸Then the priest must go out the door. He must close the house up for seven days.

³⁹“On the seventh day the priest will return to check the house. Suppose the mold that is on the walls has spread. ⁴⁰Then he must order someone to tear out the stones that have mold on them. He must have them thrown into an ‘unclean’ place outside the town. ⁴¹He must have all of the inside walls of the house scraped. Everything that is scraped off must be dumped into an ‘unclean’ place outside the town.

⁴²“Then other stones must be put in the place of the stones that had mold on them. The inside walls of the house must be coated with new clay.

⁴³“Suppose the stones have been torn out. The house has been scraped. And the walls have been coated with new clay. But the mold appears again.

⁴⁴“Then the priest must go and look things over carefully. Suppose the mold has spread in the house. Then it is the kind of mold that destroys things. The house is not ‘clean.’

⁴⁵“It must be torn down. The stones, the wood and all of the clay coating must be torn out. All of it must be taken out of the town to an ‘unclean’ place.

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