39. The priest is to return on the seventh day and examine it. If the contamination has spread on the walls of the house,
40. the priest must order that the stones with the contamination be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
41. He is to have the inside of the house completely scraped, and the plaster that is scraped off must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.
42. Then they must take different stones to replace the former ones and take additional plaster to replaster the house.
43. “If the contamination reappears in the house after the stones have been pulled out, and after the house has been scraped and replastered,
44. the priest must come and examine it. If the contamination has spread in the house, it is harmful mildew; the house is unclean.
45. It must be torn down with its stones, its beams, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.
46. Whoever enters the house during any of the days the priest quarantines it will be unclean until evening.
47. Whoever lies down in the house is to wash his clothes, and whoever eats in it is to wash his clothes.
48. “But when the priest comes and examines it, if the contamination has not spread in the house after it was replastered, he is to pronounce the house clean because the contamination has disappeared.
49. He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house,
50. and he is to slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot containing fresh water.