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Leviticus 14:41-52 English Standard Version (ESV)

41. And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.

42. Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.

43. “If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,

44. then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean.

45. And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place.

46. Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening,

47. and whoever sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

48. “But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed.

49. And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop,

50. and shall kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water

51. and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, along with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water and sprinkle the house seven times.

52. Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn.