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Leviticus

Leprous Houses

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Chapter 14
33 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying. 34 When you come to the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a mark of Tzara'at in a house in the land of your possession. 35 And the one to whom the house belongs comes and tells the priest, saying, "It appears to me like a plague in the house." 36 The priest shall command them to empty the house before he comes to examine the infection, so that nothing in the house will become ritually impure. Afterward, he shall come to examine the house. 37 And he sees the plague, and behold, the plague in the walls of the house—sunken greenish or reddish, and their appearance low from the wall. 38 And the priest went out from the house to the entrance of the house, and he quarantined the house seven days. 39 And the priest shall return on the seventh day and see, and behold, the plague has spread on the walls of the house. 40 The priest shall command that they remove the stones with the infection and throw them into an unclean place outside the city. 41 And he shall scrape the house all around inside the house, and they shall pour out the dust that they scraped outside the city to an unclean place. 42 And they shall take other stones and bring them to replace the stones, and he shall take other dust and plaster the house. 43 And if the plague returns and breaks out in the house after that, they shall remove the stones of the walls, and after scraping the house, and after plastering. 44 And the priest comes and sees, and behold, the plague has spread in the house. It is tzara'at, a deadly contamination; the house is unclean. 45 He shall tear down the house, its stones, its timbers, and all the house's dust. He shall bring them outside the city to an unclean place. 46 And the one who enters the house all the days it is shut up—he will become ritually impure until the evening. 47 And the one who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and the one who eats in the house shall wash his clothes. 48 And if the priest comes and sees, and behold, the plague has not spread in the house after the plastering of the house, then the priest shall purify the house because the plague has been healed. 49 And he shall take for the sin of the house: two birds and cedar wood and two scarlet yarns and hyssop. 50 And he shall slaughter the one bird into an earthen vessel over living waters. 51 And he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the two of the scarlet stuff and the living bird and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the living waters and sprinkle toward the house seven times. 52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the living water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet of the worm. 53 And he shall send the living bird away outside the city into the open field, and he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall become clean. 54 This is the Torah for every plague of leprosy and for the eruption. 55 and for the leprous condition of the garment and for the house 56 and the swelling, the scab, and the bright spot. 57 To instruct on the day of the unclean and on the day of the clean—this is the Torah of the skin disease.