New English Translation

Leviticus 14:41-49 New English Translation (NET)

41. Then he is to have the house scraped all around on the inside, and the plaster which is scraped off must be dumped outside the city into an unclean place.

42. They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.

43. “If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered,

44. the priest is to come and examine it, and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant disease in the house. It is unclean.

45. He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.

46. Anyone who enters the house all the days the priest has quarantined it will be unclean until evening.

47. Anyone who lies down in the house must wash his clothes. Anyone who eats in the house must wash his clothes.

48. “If, however, the priest enters and examines it, and the infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.

49. Then he is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop to decontaminate the house,