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.
46. Whoever enters a house while it is quarantined shall be unclean until evening.
47. Whoever sleeps or eats in such a house shall also wash his garments.
48. If the priest finds, when he comes to the house, that the infection has in fact not spread in the house after the plastering, he shall declare the house clean, since the infection has been healed.
49. To purify the house, he shall take two birds, as well as cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop.
50. One of the birds he shall slaughter over an earthen vessel with fresh water in it.
51. Then, taking the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, together with the living bird, he shall dip them all in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52. Thus he shall purify the house with the bird’s blood and the fresh water, along with the living bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.
53. He shall then let the living bird fly away over the countryside outside the city. Thus he shall make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.