Leviticus 14:35   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, 'I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.'

Leviticus 14:36   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.

Leviticus 14:37   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,

Leviticus 14:38   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.

Leviticus 14:39   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mold has spread on the walls,

Leviticus 14:40   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town.

Leviticus 14:41   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the material that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the town.

Leviticus 14:42   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

Then they are to take other stones to replace these and take new clay and plaster the house.

Leviticus 14:43   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

"If the defiling mold reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered,

Leviticus 14:44   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mold has spread in the house, it is a persistent defiling mold; the house is unclean.

Leviticus 14:45   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

It must be torn down-its stones, timbers and all the plaster-and taken out of the town to an unclean place.

Leviticus 14:47   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash their clothes.

Leviticus 14:48   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

"But if the priest comes to examine it and the mold has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the defiling mold is gone.

Leviticus 14:49   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

To purify the house he is to take two birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop.

Leviticus 14:50   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.

Leviticus 14:51   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

Leviticus 14:52   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

He shall purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.

Leviticus 14:54   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

These are the regulations for any defiling skin disease, for a sore,

Leviticus 14:56   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

and for a swelling, a rash or a shiny spot,

Leviticus 14:57   (Read all of Leviticus 14)

to determine when something is clean or unclean. These are the regulations for defiling skin diseases and defiling molds.

Leviticus 15:1   (Read all of Leviticus 15)

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

Leviticus 15:2   (Read all of Leviticus 15)

"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When any man has an unusual bodily discharge, such a discharge is unclean.

Leviticus 15:4   (Read all of Leviticus 15)

" 'Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean.

Leviticus 15:6   (Read all of Leviticus 15)

Whoever sits on anything that the man with a discharge sat on must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.