31. One of them is for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, to be presented along with the grain offering. Through this process, the priest will purify the person before the lord.
32. These are the instructions for purification for those who have recovered from a serious skin disease but who cannot afford to bring the offerings normally required for the ceremony of purification.”
33. Then the lord said to Moses and Aaron,
34. “When you arrive in Canaan, the land I am giving you as your own possession, I may contaminate some of the houses in your land with mildew.
35. The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, ‘It appears that my house has some kind of mildew.’
36. Before the priest goes in to inspect the house, he must have the house emptied so nothing inside will be pronounced ceremonially unclean.
37. Then the priest will go in and examine the mildew on the walls. If he finds greenish or reddish streaks and the contamination appears to go deeper than the wall’s surface,
38. the priest will step outside the door and put the house in quarantine for seven days.
39. On the seventh day the priest must return for another inspection. If he finds that the mildew on the walls of the house has spread,