37. He will examine the mildew area on the walls. If it is green and red in sunken areas that are deeper than the rest of the wall,
38. the priest will go out to the door of the house and close up the house for seven days.
39. On the seventh day the priest will go back and examine it again. If the mildew in the walls of the house has spread,
40. the priest must order the stones that have the mildew to be torn out and thrown outside the city in an unclean place.
41. He must have the entire inside of the house scraped. The plaster dust scraped off the walls must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.
42. The stones must be replaced, and the house must be plastered again.
43. If the mildew develops again in the house after all this,
44. the priest will examine it one more time. If it is a spreading type of mildew, the house is unclean.
45. The house—stones, wood, and all the plaster—must be torn down and taken to an unclean place outside the city.
46. Whoever goes into the house any time it is closed up will be unclean until evening.
47. Whoever sleeps or eats in the house must wash his clothes.
48. But if the priest comes and makes an examination and the mildew has not spread in the house after it is plastered again, the priest must declare the house clean. The mildew is gone.
49. “The priest must take two birds, cedar wood, red yarn, and a hyssop sprig and use them to make the house clean.
50. He must kill the one bird over a clay bowl containing fresh water.
51. He must take the cedar wood, the hyssop sprig, the red yarn, and the living bird and dip them in the fresh water containing the blood of the bird that was killed. He must sprinkle the house seven times.