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The LORD further spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:

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

"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put a spot of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession,

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

then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'Something like a spot of leprosy has become visible to me in the house.'

And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:

"The priest shall then command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the spot, so that everything in the house need not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house.

Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:

"So he shall look at the spot, and if the spot on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the surface,

And he shall look 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 than the wall;

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

Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:

"Then the priest shall return on the seventh day and make an inspection. If the spot has indeed spread on the walls of the house,

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

the priest shall order them to pull out the stones with the spot on them and throw them away at an unclean place outside the city.

Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:

"And he shall have the house scraped all around inside, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city.

And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:

"Then they shall take other stones and replace the discarded stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.

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

"If, however, the spot breaks out again in the house after he has pulled out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered,

And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;

then the priest shall come in and make an inspection. If he sees that the spot has indeed spread in the house, it is a malignant spot in the house; it is unclean.

Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

"The owner shall therefore tear down the house, its stones, its timbers, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an unclean place.

And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

"Moreover, whoever goes into the house during the time that he has quarantined it, becomes unclean until evening.

Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.

"Likewise, whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

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

"If, on the other hand, the priest comes in and makes an inspection and the spot has not indeed spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the spot has not reappeared.

And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

"To cleanse the house then, he shall take two birds, cedar wood, a scarlet string, and hyssop,

And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

and he shall slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over running water.

And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:

"Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet string, with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird as well as in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

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

"So he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water, along with the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet string.

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:

"However, he shall let the live bird go free outside the city into the open field. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it will be clean."

But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.

This is the law for any spot of leprosy—even for a scale,

This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,

and for the leprous garment or house,

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

and for a swelling, for a scab, and for a bright spot—

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

to teach when they are unclean and when they are clean. This is the law of leprosy.

To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.