Leviticus 14:42-52

42 They shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and take other plaster and plaster the house.
43 If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,
44 the priest shall go and make inspection; if the disease has spread in the house, it is a spreading leprous disease in the house; it is unclean.
45 He shall have the house torn down, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.
46 All who enter the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening;
47 and all who sleep in the house shall wash their clothes; and all who eat in the house shall wash their clothes.
48 If the priest comes and makes an inspection, and the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, the priest shall pronounce the house clean; the disease is healed.
49 For the cleansing of the house he shall take two birds, with cedarwood and crimson yarn and hyssop,
50 and shall slaughter one of the birds over fresh water in an earthen vessel,
51 and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the crimson yarn, along with the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52 Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the fresh water, and with the living bird, and with the cedarwood and hyssop and crimson yarn;

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain
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