Instructions regarding mildew in a house

33 Yahweh also said to Aaron and Moses/me, 34 “I am about to give you Canaan land to belong to your people permanently. When you enter that land, there will be times when I cause/allow mildew to appear inside one of your houses. 35 If that happens, the owner of that house must go to the priest and tell him, ‘There is something in my house that looks like mildew.’ 36 “Then the priest will say to him, ‘Take everything out of the house before I enter the house to examine the mildew. If you do not do that, I will declare that everything in the house is contaminated.’ 37 After the owner takes everything outside of his house, the priest will go in and inspect the house. If the mildew has caused greenish or reddish spots/depressions on the walls that seem to be deeper than only on the surface of the walls, 38 the priest will go outside the house and lock it up for seven days. 39 On the seventh day, he must go into the house and inspect it again. If the mildew on the walls has spread, 40 the priest will tell someone to tear out and throw in the dump outside the town all the stones in the walls that have mildew on them. 41 Then the owner must scrape all the walls inside the house, and everything that is scraped off must be thrown into a dump outside the town. 42 Then the owner must get new/other stones to replace the ones that had mildew on them, and take new clay and plaster to cover the stones in the walls of the house.

43 “If the mildew appears again in the house after that is done, 44 the priest must go and examine the house again. If the mildew has spread inside the house, it will be clear that the mildew is the kind that destroys houses, and no one will be allowed to live in it. 45 It must be completely torn down—the stones, the timber and the plaster—and all those things must be thrown into a dump outside the town.

46 “Anyone who goes into that house while it is locked up will not be allowed to be with other people until sunset of that day. 47 Anyone who sleeps in that house or eats in that house during that time must wash his clothes.

48 “But when the priest comes to examine the house after it has been plastered, if the mildew has not spread, he shall declare that people may live in it, because the mildew is gone. 49 But before people are allowed to live in it, the priest must take two small birds and some cedar wood and some red/scarlet yarn and some hyssop. 50 He must kill one of the birds while holding it over a clay pot containing water from a spring. 51 Then he must take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the red/scarlet yarn, and the other/living bird, and dip them into the blood of the dead bird, and sprinkle some of that blood on the house seven times. 52 By doing all those things he will cause the house to be acceptable to be lived in again. 53 Then he must release the other bird and allow it to fly away. By doing that, he will finish the ritual for causing the house to be acceptable for people to live in it again.

54 “Those are the regulations for contagious diseases, for itching sores, 55 for mildew [DOU] on clothes or in a house, 56 and for swellings, rashes, or bright spots on sores, 57 to find out whether a person has a contagious disease or not, and whether people will still be permitted to touch their clothing or their house, or not.”