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Leviticus 14:30-45 Good News Bible (GNB)

30. Then he shall offer one of the doves or pigeons

31. as the sin offering and the other as the burnt offering with the grain offering. In this way the priest shall perform the ritual of purification.

32. This is the law for the one who has a dreaded skin disease but who cannot afford the normal offerings required for his purification.

33. The Lord gave Moses and Aaron

34-35. the following regulations about houses affected by spreading mildew. (These were to apply after the people of Israel entered the land of Canaan, which the Lord was going to give them as their possession.) If someone finds that the Lord has sent mildew on his house, then he must go and tell the priest about it.

36. The priest shall order everything to be moved out of the house before he goes to examine the mildew; otherwise everything in the house will be declared unclean. Then he shall go to the house

37. and examine the mildew. If there are greenish or reddish spots that appear to be eating into the wall,

38. he shall leave the house and lock it up for seven days.

39. On the seventh day he shall return and examine it again. If the mildew has spread,

40. he shall order the stones on which the mildew is found to be removed and thrown into some unclean place outside the city.

41. After that he must have all the interior walls scraped and the plaster dumped in an unclean place outside the city.

42. Then other stones are to be used to replace the stones that were removed, and new plaster will be used to cover the walls.

43. If the mildew breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and plastered,

44. the priest shall go and look. If it has spread, the house is unclean.

45. It must be torn down, and its stones, its wood, and all its plaster must be carried out of the city to an unclean place.