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33 The Lord gave Moses and Aaron
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
34 the following regulations about houses affected by spreading mildew. (These were to apply after the people of Israel entered the land of Canaan, which the Lord was going to give them as their possession.) If any of you find that the Lord has sent mildew on your house, then you must go and tell the priest about it.
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“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land,
36 The priest shall order everything to be moved out of the house before he goes to examine the mildew; otherwise everything in the house will be declared unclean. Then he shall go to the house
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The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.
37 and examine the mildew. If there are greenish or reddish spots that appear to be eating into the wall,
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He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,
38 he shall leave the house and lock it up for seven days.
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the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.
39 On the seventh day he shall return and examine it again. If the mildew has spread,
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On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mold has spread on the walls,
40 he shall order that the stones on which the mildew is found be removed and thrown into some unclean place outside the city.
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he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town.
41 After that he must have all the interior walls scraped and the plaster dumped in an unclean place outside the city.
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He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the material that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the town.
42 Then other stones are to be used to replace the stones that were removed, and new plaster will be used to cover the walls.
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Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house.
43 If the mildew breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and plastered,
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“If the defiling mold reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered,
44 the priest shall go and look. If it has spread, the house is unclean.
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the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mold has spread in the house, it is a persistent defiling mold; the house is unclean.
45 It must be torn down, and its stones, its wood, and all its plaster must be carried out of the city to an unclean place.
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It must be torn down—its stones, timbers and all the plaster—and taken out of the town to an unclean place.
46 Any who enter the house while it is locked up will be unclean until evening.
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“Anyone who goes into the house while it is closed up will be unclean till evening.
47 Any who lie down or eat in the house must wash their clothes.
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Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash their clothes.
48 If, when the priest comes to look, the mildew has not reappeared after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house ritually clean, because the mildew has been completely removed.
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“But if the priest comes to examine it and the mold has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the defiling mold is gone.
49 To purify the house, he shall take two birds, some cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop.
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To purify the house he is to take two birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop.
50 He shall kill one of the birds over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water.
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He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.
51 Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the red cord, and the live bird and shall dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water. And he shall sprinkle the house seven times.
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Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52 In this way he shall purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red cord.
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He shall purify the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.
53 Then he shall let the live bird fly away outside the city over the open fields. In this way he shall perform the ritual of purification for the house, and it will be ritually clean.
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Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”
54 These are the laws about dreaded skin diseases;
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These are the regulations for any defiling skin disease, for a sore,
55 sores, boils, or inflammations; and about mildew in clothes or houses.
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for defiling molds in fabric or in a house,
57 These laws determine when something is unclean and when it is clean.
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to determine when something is clean or unclean. These are the regulations for defiling skin diseases and defiling molds.
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