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And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
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Whensoever ye shall enter into the land of the Chananites, which I give you for a possession, and I shall put the plague of leprosy in the houses of the land of your possession;
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then the owner of the house shall come and report to the priest, saying, I have seen as it were a plague in the house.
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And the priest shall give orders to remove the furniture of the house, before the priest comes in to see the plague, and none of the things in the house shall become unclean; and afterwards the priest shall go in to examine the house.
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And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, the plague is in the walls of the house, greenish or reddish cavities, and the appearance of them beneath the surface of the walls.
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And the priest shall come out of the house to the door of the house, and the priest shall separate the house seven days.
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And the priest shall return on the seventh day and view the house; and, behold, the plague is spread in the walls of the house,
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then the priest shall give orders, and they shall take away the stones in which the plague is, and shall cast them out of the city into an unclean place.
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And they shall scrape the house within round about, and shall pour out the dust scraped off outside the city into an unclean place.
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And they shall take other scraped stones, and put them in the place of the stones, and they shall take other plaster and plaster the house.
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And if the plague should return again, and break out in the house after they have taken away the stones and after the house is scraped, and after it has been plastered,
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then the priest shall go in and see if the plague is spread in the house: it is a confirmed leprosy in the house, it is unclean.
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And they shall take down the house, and its timbers and its stones, and they shall carry out all the mortar without the city into an unclean place.
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And he that goes into the house at any time, during its separation, shall be unclean until evening.
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And he that sleeps in the house shall wash his garments, and be unclean until evening; and he that eats in the house shall wash his garments, and be unclean until evening.
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and if the priest shall arrive and enter and see, and behold the plague be not at all spread in the house after the house has been plastered, then the priest shall declare the house clean, because the plague is healed.
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And he shall take to purify the house two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and spun scarlet, and hyssop.
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And he shall slay one bird in an earthen vessel over running water.
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And he shall take the cedar wood, and the spun scarlet, and the hyssop, and the living bird; and shall dip it into the blood of the bird slain over running water, and with them he shall sprinkle the house seven times.
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and he shall purify the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the spun scarlet.
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And he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the field, and shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
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This the law concerning every plague of leprosy and scurf,
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and of the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
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and of a sore, and of a clear spot, and of a shining one,
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and of declaring in what day it is unclean, and in what day it shall be purged: this the law of the leprosy.