1The LORD spoke to Moses, 2"These are the instructions for making a person clean after a skin disease. He must be taken to the priest. 3The priest will go outside the camp and examine him. If the person is healed, 4the priest will order someone to get two living, clean birds, some cedar wood, red yarn, and a hyssop sprig to use for the cleansing. 5Then the priest will order someone to kill one bird over a clay bowl containing fresh water. 6The priest will take the living bird, the cedar wood, the red yarn, and the hyssop sprig and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. 7He will sprinkle the blood seven times on the one to be cleansed and will declare that person clean. Then he will let the living bird fly away into the open country. 8"The one to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and wash. Then he will be clean. After that he may go into the camp. However, for seven days he will live outside his tent. 9On the seventh day he must shave off all the hair on his head, his beard, and his eyebrows, and he must wash his clothes and body. Then he will be clean.

10"On the eighth day he must take two male lambs that have no defects and a one-year-old female lamb that has no defects. He must also take eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering along with a quart of olive oil. 11The priest who will declare him clean must bring the person and his offerings into the LORD's presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 12The priest will take one of the male lambs and the quart of olive oil and present them to the LORD as a guilt offering. 13He will slaughter the lamb in the holy place where he slaughters the offering for sin and the burnt offering. He will do this because the guilt offering, like the offering for sin, belongs to the priest. It is very holy. 14Then the priest will take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. 15The priest will also take some of the olive oil and pour it into his own left hand. 16He will dip his right finger in the oil in his left hand, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times in the LORD's presence. 17The priest will put some of the oil that is still in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering. 18The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed. So he will make peace with the LORD for that person in the LORD's presence. 19The priest will also sacrifice the offering for sin to make peace with the LORD for the one who is being cleansed from his impurity. After that, he will slaughter the burnt offering. 20The priest will sacrifice the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest will make peace with the LORD for that person, and the person who had the skin disease will be clean.

21"But if the one to be cleansed is poor and cannot afford that much, he must take one male lamb, present it to make peace with the LORD for himself, and use it for his guilt offering. He will take only eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, a quart of olive oil, 22and two mourning doves or two pigeons (whatever he can afford). The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering. 23On the eighth day he will take them to the priest for his cleansing at the entrance to the tent of meeting in the LORD's presence. 24The priest will take the lamb for the guilt offering and the quart of olive oil and present them to the LORD. 25He will slaughter the lamb as a guilt offering. Then the priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. 26The priest will pour some of the olive oil into his own left hand. 27With his right finger he will sprinkle some of the oil seven times in the LORD's presence. 28The priest will put some of the oil that is in his hand on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed. These are the same places he had put the blood of the guilt offering. 29In the LORD's presence, the priest will pour the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed in order to make a payment for him. 30Then the one to be cleansed must take one of the mourning doves or pigeons (whichever he can afford), 31and sacrifice it as an offering for sin. He will take the other and sacrifice it as a burnt offering together with the grain offering. So in the LORD's presence the priest will make peace with the LORD for the one who is being cleansed. 32These are the instructions for one who has an infectious skin disease but cannot afford what is needed for his cleansing."

33The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,

34"When you come to Canaan that I am going to give to you, mildew may appear in a house. 35The owner of that house must come and tell the priest that there is something that looks like mildew in his house. 36"Before the priest examines the house, he will order everything taken out of it so that nothing in the house will become unclean. Then the priest will go inside to examine the house. 37He will examine the mildew area on the walls. If it is green and red in sunken areas that are deeper than the rest of the wall, 38the priest will go out to the door of the house and close up the house for seven days. 39On the seventh day the priest will go back and examine it again. If the mildew in the walls of the house has spread, 40the priest must order the stones that have the mildew to be torn out and thrown outside the city in an unclean place. 41He must have the entire inside of the house scraped. The plaster dust scraped off the walls must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city. 42The stones must be replaced, and the house must be plastered again.

43If the mildew develops again in the house after all this, 44the priest will examine it one more time. If it is a spreading type of mildew, the house is unclean. 45The house-stones, wood, and all the plaster-must be torn down and taken to an unclean place outside the city. 46Whoever goes into the house any time it is closed up will be unclean until evening. 47Whoever sleeps or eats in the house must wash his clothes.

48But if the priest comes and makes an examination and the mildew has not spread in the house after it is plastered again, the priest must declare the house clean. The mildew is gone. 49"The priest must take two birds, cedar wood, red yarn, and a hyssop sprig and use them to make the house clean. 50He must kill the one bird over a clay bowl containing fresh water. 51He must take the cedar wood, the hyssop sprig, the red yarn, and the living bird and dip them in the fresh water containing the blood of the bird that was killed. He must sprinkle the house seven times. 52So he must use the bird's blood, the fresh water, the living bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red yarn to make the house clean. 53Then he will let the living bird fly from the city into the open country. He will make peace with the LORD for the house, and it will be clean.

54"These are the instructions for any kind of mildew or fungus 55that infects clothing or houses 56and for skin diseases where there is a sore, a rash, or an irritated area. 57These instructions for skin diseases and mildew help you distinguish between what is clean and what is unclean."