Leviticus 14:38-46 ▼

38 the priest shall go out of the house, to the doorway, and quarantine the house for seven days.

39 The priest shall return on the seventh day and look; and if the mark has spread on the walls of the house,

40 he shall order them to tear out the contaminated stones and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.

41 He shall have the entire inside area of the house scraped, and the plaster that is scraped off shall be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.

42 Then they shall take new stones and replace the [contaminated] stones, and he shall take plaster and replaster the house.

43 “If, however, the mark breaks out again in the house after he has removed the stones and has scraped and replastered the house,

44 then the priest shall come and look again, and if the mark has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is [ceremonially] unclean.

45 He shall tear down the house—its stones and its timber and all the plaster of the house—and shall take everything outside the city to an unclean place.

46 Moreover, whoever goes into the house during the time that it is quarantined becomes unclean until evening.