32. This is the ritual for one afflicted with a scaly infection who has insufficient means for purification.
33. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron:
34. When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you to possess, if I put a fungal infection in any house of the land you occupy,
35. the owner of the house shall come and report to the priest, “Something like an infection has appeared in my house.”
36. The priest shall then order the house to be cleared out before he goes in to examine the infection, lest everything in the house become unclean. Only after this is he to go in to examine the house.
37. If the priest, upon inspection, finds that the infection on the walls of the house consists of greenish or reddish spots which seem to go deeper than the surface of the wall,
38. he shall go out of the house to the doorway and quarantine the house for seven days.
39. On the seventh day the priest shall return. If, upon inspection, he finds that the infection has spread on the walls,
40. he shall order the infected stones to be pulled out and cast in an unclean place outside the city.
41. The whole inside of the house shall then be scraped, and the mortar that has been scraped off shall be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.
42. Then other stones shall be brought and put in the place of the old stones, and new mortar obtained and plastered on the house.
43. If the infection breaks out once more in the house after the stones have been pulled out and the house has been scraped and replastered,
44. the priest shall come; and if, upon inspection, he finds that the infection has spread in the house, it is a corrosive fungus in the house, and it is unclean.
45. It shall be pulled down, and all its stones, beams and mortar shall be hauled away to an unclean place outside the city.