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And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,

When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I giue to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosie in a house of the land of your possession;

And hee that oweth the house shall come, and tell the Priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:

Then the Priest shall command that they emptie the house, before the Priest goe into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made vncleane: and afterward the Priest shall goe in, to see the house.

And he shal looke on the plague: and behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house, with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower then the wall;

Then the Priest shall goe out of the house, to the doore of the house, and shut vp the house seuen dayes.

And the Priest shall come againe the seuenth day, and shall looke: and behold, if the plague bee spread in the walls of the house;

Then the Priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an vncleane place without the Citie.

And hee shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall powre out the dust that they scrape off, without the citie into an vncleane place.

And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and hee shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.

And if the plague come againe, and breake out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered;

Then the Priest shall come and looke, and behold, if the plague bee spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosie in the house: it is vncleane.

And he shall breake downe the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house: and he shall cary them foorth out of the city into an vncleane place.

Moreouer, he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut vp, shalbe vncleane vntill the Euen.

And hee that lieth in the house, shall wash his clothes: and hee that eateth in the house, shall wash his clothes.

And if the Priest shall come in, and looke vpon it, and behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered: then the Priest shall pronounce the house cleane, because the plague is healed.

And he shall take to cleanse the house, two birds, and Cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssope.

And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessell, ouer running water.

And he shall take the Cedar-wood and the hyssope, and the scarlet, and the liuing bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaine bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seuen times.

And he shall clense the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the liuing bird, and with the Cedar wood, and with the hyssope, and with the scarlet.

But hee shall let goe the liuing bird out of the citie into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be cleane.

This is the law for all manner plague of leprosie and skall,

And for the leprosie of a garment, and of an house,

And for a rising, and for a scabbe, and for a bright spot:

To teach when it is vncleane, and when it is cleane: this is the lawe of leprosie.