Leviticus 14:34-53 ▼

34 “When you? come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you? for a possession, and I put a plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your? possession,

35 then he to whom the house belongs shall come, and he shall tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like a plague has appeared to me in the house.’

36 And the priest shall command, and they shall empty the house before the priest goes in to examine the plague, and all that is in the house shall not become unclean. And after thus, the priest shall go in to examine the house.

37 And he shall examine the plague, and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house—hollow spots, greenish or reddish—and their appearance is lower than the wall,

38 then the priest shall go out from the house to the door of the house, and he shall shut up the house seven days.

39 And the priest shall return on the seventh day and he shall examine, and behold, if the plague has spread in the walls of the house,

40 then the priest shall command, and they shall take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them to the outside of the city, to an unclean place.

41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped from the house all around, and they shall pour out the dust that they have scraped off to the outside of the city, to an unclean place.

42 And they shall take other stones, and they shall bring them to the place of the stones; and he shall take other mortar, and he shall plaster the house.

43 And if the plague returns and it breaks out in the house after his taking out of the stones, and after his scraping the house, and after his plastering,

44 then the priest shall come and he shall examine, and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a harmful leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

45 And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timbers, and all the mortar of the house, and he shall carry them to the outside of the city, to an unclean place.

46 And the one coming into the house all the days of his shutting it up shall be unclean until the evening.

47 And the one lying down in the house shall wash his clothes, and the one eating in the house shall wash his clothes.

48 And if the priest surely comes and examines it, and behold, the plague has not spread in the house after the plastering of the house, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the plague has been healed.

49 And he shall take to cleanse from sin the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop,

50 and he shall slaughter one of the birds in an earthen vessel over living water.

51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn, and the living bird, and he shall dip them in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered and in the living water, and he shall sprinkle it toward the house seven times.

52 And he shall cleanse from sin the house with the blood of the bird, and with the living water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet yarn.

53 And he shall send away the living bird to the outside of the city to the face of the field, and he shall make atonement upon the house, and it shall be clean.