32. “These are the teachings for making a person clean. This is done after he has become well from a skin disease. These teachings are for people who cannot afford the regular sacrifices for becoming clean.”
33. The Lord also said to Moses and Aaron,
34. “I am giving the land of Canaan to your people. When they enter that land, I might cause mildew to grow in someone’s house.
35. The owner of that house must come and tell the priest. He should say, ‘I have seen something like mildew in my house.’
36. Then the priest must order the people to empty the house. They must do this before he goes in to look at the mildew. This is so he will not have to say that everything in the house is unclean. After the people have emptied the house, the priest will go in to look at it.
37. He will look at the mildew. The mildew on the walls of the house might be green or red. It might go into the wall’s surface.
38. If these things are true, he must go out and close up the house for seven days.
39. On the seventh day the priest must come back and check the house. The mildew may have spread on the walls of the house.
40. If it has, the priest must order the people to tear out the stones with the mildew on them. They should throw the stones away. They must put the stones at a certain unclean place outside the city.
41. Then the priest must have all the inside of the house scraped. The people must throw away the plaster they scraped off the walls. They must put the plaster at a certain unclean place outside the city.
42. Then the owner must put new stones in the walls. And he must cover the walls with new clay plaster.
43. “A person may have taken away the old stones and plaster. He may have put in new stones and plaster. But mildew may again appear in his house.