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.
52. So he must use the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the living bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the red yarn to make the house clean.
53. Then he will let the living bird fly from the city into the open country. He will make peace with the Lord for the house, and it will be clean.
54. “These are the instructions for any kind of mildew or fungus
55. that infects clothing or houses
56. and for skin diseases where there is a sore, a rash, or an irritated area.