Leviticus 14:34-57 When you are come to the land of the Chananites which I give you for a possession, and I send a touch of a leprosy on the houses of the land which you possess,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ³⁴ When you are come to the land of the Chananites which I give you for a possession, and I send a touch of a leprosy on the houses of the land which you possess, ³⁵ the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, Something like a touch hath appeared to me in the house. ³⁶ Upon this the priest shall order the house to be unfurnished, before he goeth in to view the touch, that what is in the house may not be made unclean. And this being done, the priest shall go in to examine the house. ³⁷ And if, upon viewing the touch, he see that there is a touch in the walls of the house, and he seeth the cavities of a reddish or greenish colour, which appear to be deep in the wall; ³⁸ upon coming out of the house, at the door of the house, the priest shall sequestrate the house for seven days. ³⁹ And on the seventh day the priest shall come again and view the house: And if he seeth that the touch hath spread in the walls of the house, ⁴⁰ the priest shall order them to take out the stones in which is the touch, and to carry them out of the city to an unclean place, ⁴¹ and to scrape the house on the inside round about, and pour out the dust which is scraped off, without the city, into an unclean place. ⁴² And they shall take other stones, well scraped, and put them in the place of those stones, and take other mortar, and plaister the house. ⁴³ And if the touch come again, and break out in the house after they have taken away the stones, and after the house hath been scraped, and after it hath been plaistered; ⁴⁴ the priest shall go in and take a view; and if the touch hath spread in the house, it is an inveterate leprosy in the house. It is unclean. ⁴⁵ They shall therefore demolish the house, and carry the wood thereof, and the stones thereof, and the rubbish thereof, out of the city to an unclean place. ⁴⁶ Now he who goeth into the house, all the while it is sequestrated, shall be unclean till the evening. ⁴⁷ And he who sleepeth in the house shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: And he who eateth in the house shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. ⁴⁸ But when the priest shall come, and go in, if upon taking a view he seeth that the touch hath not spread in the house, after being plaistered, the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the touch is healed. ⁴⁹ And in order to cleanse the house, he shall take two clean live birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop. ⁵⁰ And he shall kill one of the birds, over spring water, in an earthen vessel. ⁵¹ Then he shall take the cedar wood, and the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird which was killed over spring water, and with them sprinkle the house seven times, ⁵² and cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the spring water, and with the living bird, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet yarn. ⁵³ Then he shall send away the live bird out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean. ⁵⁴ This is the law for every touch of a leprosy and scald, ⁵⁵ and of the leprosy in a garment, and a house, ⁵⁶ and of a boil, and a scar, and the bright spot; ⁵⁷ and to teach when a thing is unclean, and when it is to be pronounced clean. This is the law of the leprosy.