33 Then Yahweh told Mosheh (Moses) and Aharon (Aaron):

34 “When you enter into the land of Kena’an (Canaan) which I’m giving you all as a possession, and if I cause an infection in one of your homes in that land, 35 then the homeowner must go and inform the priest that something like an infection has appeared in their house. 36 The priest must order that everything be removed out of the house before he comes to inspect it so that it won’t all be pronounced as ‘unclean’. After that’s done, he’ll go to see the house 37 and examine the growth. If the growth is greenish or reddish and seems more than surface deep, 38 then the priest must leave the house via the main entrance and quarantine the house for seven days. 39 On the seventh day, the priest must return and examine it again, and if the growth has spread on the house walls, 40 then he must order that those infected stones be pulled out of the wall and thrown outside the city into a place that’s considered ‘unclean’. 41 Then the homeowner must scrape all the plaster off the inside walls and also dispose of that at that ‘unclean’ place. 42 Then they can replace the stones that were removed, and apply fresh plaster to the house.

43 However, if the growth returns and breaks out again in the house even after the stones were replaced and the walls were replastered, 44 then the priest must come back and reexamine it. If the growth has spread on the walls, then it’s a malignant growth and the house is ‘unclean’. 45 The owner must tear the house down—its stones and timber and all the mortar, must be carted outside the city into a place that’s considered ‘unclean’. 46 Any person that enters that house after the priest had quarantined it, will be ‘unclean’ until that evening. 47 Any person who lies down or eats in that house, must wash their clothes.

48 However, if the priest came back after the house was replastered and after his inspection, find that the growth hasn’t reappeared, then he can pronounce the house as ‘clean’ because the growth has gone. 49 Then he must take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet thread, and some hyssop twigs, 50 and slaughter one bird so the blood runs into a clay jug containing water from a spring or creek. 51 Then the priest must take the live bird, along with the cedar wood, the scarlet thread, the hyssop twigs and the live bird, and dip them all into that blood of the slaughtered bird (mixed with the fresh water), and flick it seven times onto the house. 52 In that way, he’ll purify the house with the bird’s blood and the fresh water, and with the live bird and the cedar wood, the hyssop twigs and the scarlet thread. 53 Then he must release the live bird to fly into the countryside, thus making the house right with God, and then it’ll be ‘clean’.

54 The above are the regulations concerning any serious skin diseases and itchiness, 55 as well as growths on clothing and buildings 56 and swellings, rashes, and bright spots on the skin, 57 so that you’ll know how to determine what’s ‘unclean’ or ‘clean’. Those are the regulations for infectious growths.