Regulations About Contaminated Fabrics

47 “And when the garment has[fn] an infectious skin disease[fn] on it, on a wool garment[fn] or on a linen garment,[fn] 48 or on woven material or on a linen fabric, or[fn] on wool or on leather or on any work of leather, 49 and if the infection is yellowish green or reddish on the garment or on the leather or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object,[fn] it is an infectious skin disease[fn] and it shall be shown to the priest. 50 And the priest shall examine the infection, and he shall confine the infected article for seven days. 51 And he shall examine the infection on the seventh day; if the infection has spread on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on the leather, for any work for which the leather is used, the infection is a destructive skin disease[fn]—it is unclean. 52 And he shall burn the garment or the woven material or the fabric, whether wool or linen,[fn] or any leather object that has[fn] the infection, because it is an infectious skin disease,[fn] which is destructive—it must be burned in the fire.

53 “But[fn] if the priest examines it[fn] and if[fn] the infection has not spread on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, 54 then[fn] the priest shall command, and someone[fn] shall wash that on which the infection is, and he shall confine it a second time for seven days. 55 And the priest shall examine it[fn] after the infection has been washed off, and if[fn] the infection has not changed its outward appearance and the infection has not spread, it is unclean; he must burn it in the fire; it is a fungus on its back or on its front. 56 But[fn] if the priest examines it[fn] and if[fn] the infection is faded after it has been washed off, then[fn] he shall tear it from the garment or from the leather or from the woven material or from the fabric. 57 And if it appears again on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, it is spreading; you[fn] must burn in the fire that which has the infection in it. 58 And the garment or the woven material or the fabric or any leather object that he might wash and the infection is removed from them then[fn] shall be washed a second time, and it shall be clean.”

59 This is the regulation of the infectious skin disease[fn] in[fn] the wool garment or the linen or the woven material or the fabric or any leather object to declare it clean or to declare it unclean.