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And Yahweh spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying:

When ye enter into the land of Canaan which I am about to give you for a possession, - and I put a plague-mark of leprosy in a house, of the land of your possession,

then shall he that owneth the house come in, and tell the priest, saying, - A kind of plague-mark, appeareth to me in the house;

and the priest shall give command, and they shall empty the house, ere yet the priest cometh in to view the mark, so that he do not pronounce unclean all that is in the house, - and, after this, shall the priest come in to view the house:

then shall he view the mark and lo! if the mark is in the walls of the house, with sunken places greenish yellow or reddish, - and they appear to be lower than the surface of the wall,

then shall the priest come forth out of the house, unto the entrance of the house, - and shall shut up the house seven days;

and the priest shall return on the seventh day, - and take a view, and lo! if the mark hath spread in the walls of the house,

then shall the priest give command, and they shall pull out the stones, wherein is the mark, - and cast them forth outside the city, into an unclean place;

and, the house itself, shall he cause to be scraped on the inside round about, - and they shall pour out the mortar which they have scraped off, outside the city, into an unclean place;

and shall take other stones, and put in the place of the stones, - and, other mortar, shall he take and plaster the house.

But if the mark again breaketh out in the house, after the taking out of the stones, - and after the scraping of the house and after the plastering,;

then shall the priest come in, and take a view, and lo! if the mark hath spread in the house, a fretting leprosy, it is in the house unclean, it is,

and he shall pull down the house, - the stones thereof, and the timber thereof and all the mortar of the house, - and shall carry them forth outside the city, into an unclean place.

And as for him that entereth into the house, all the days it is shut up, he shall be unclean until the evening;

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

But, though the priest do come, into the house, and take a view, yet lo! if the plague-mark hath not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then shall the priest pronounce the house clean, for, healed, is the plague.

Then shall he take to cleanse, the house, two birds, - and cedar wood, and crimson, and hyssop;

and shall kill one bird, - within an earthen vessel over living water;

and take the cedar wood and the hyssop, and the crimson and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the living water, - and sprinkle the house seven times;

and so cleanse 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 crimson;

and shall let go the living bird unto the outside of the city, unto the face of the field, - so shall he put a propitiatory-covering over the house and it shall be clean.

This, is the law, - for every plague-mark of leprosy and for scall;

and for garment leprosy, and for house leprosy ;

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

to give instruction, on the day of declaring unclean, and on the day of declaring clean, - This is the law of leprosy.