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And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

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

then if he who owns the house shall come in and declare to the priest, saying, I have seen a plague in the house.

And the priest shall command, and they shall turn out from the house before the priest comes in to see the plague that all in the house may not be unclean; and afterwards the priest shall come in to see the house.

And he shall look upon the plague; and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with depressions greenish or reddish, and the appearance of it is lower than the wall;

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

And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the walls of the house;

then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is , and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.

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

And they shall take other stones and bring them in to the place of the stones; and he shall take other clay and shall plaster the house.

And if the plague returns and breaks out in the house after he has taken away the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it has been plastered,

then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a corroding leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

And he shall break down the house; its stones, and its wood, and all the clay of the house; and he shall carry it out to the outside of the city, to an unclean place.

And he who goes into the house all the days he has shut it up shall be unclean until the evening.

And he who lies in the house shall wash his clothes and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

And if the priest shall come in and carefully look, and, behold, the plague has not spread in the house after the house has been plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean; for the plague has been healed.

And he shall take two birds for the cleansing of the house, and cedar wood, and scarlet dye , and hyssop;

and he shall kill the one bird on an earthen vessel, over running water;

and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and shall dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and shall sprinkle on the house seven times.

And he shall cleanse 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 scarlet dye ;

and he shall send away the living bird to the outside of the city, to the open field, and shall atone for the house; and it shall be clean.

This is the law for every plague of the leprosy and for scabs;

and for leprosy of a garment, and of a house,

and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;

to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean; this is the law of leprosy.