28. The priest will take some of the oil from his hand and put it on the bottom of the right ear of the person to be made clean. He will also put some of it on the thumb of the person’s right hand and some on the big toe of the person’s right foot. The oil will go on these places on top of the blood from the penalty offering.
29. The priest must put the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the head of the person to be made clean, to make him clean so he can belong to the Lord again.
30. Then the priest will offer one of the doves or young pigeons, which the person can afford.
31. He must offer one of the birds for a sin offering and the other for a whole burnt offering, along with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make the person clean so he can belong to the Lord again; he will become clean.
32. “These are the teachings for making a person clean after he has had a skin disease, if he cannot afford the regular sacrifices for becoming clean.”
33. The Lord also said to Moses and Aaron,
34. “I am giving the land of Canaan to your people. When they enter that land, if I cause mildew to grow in someone’s house in that land,
35. the owner of that house must come and tell the priest. He should say, ‘I have seen something like mildew in my house.’
36. Then the priest must order the people to empty the house before he goes in to look at the mildew. This is so he will not have to say that everything in the house is unclean. After this, the priest will go in to look at it.
37. He will look at the mildew, and if the mildew on the walls of the house is green or red and goes into the wall’s surface,
38. he must go out and close up the house for seven days.
39. On the seventh day the priest must come back and check the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls of the house,
40. the priest must order the people to tear out the stones with the mildew on them. They should throw them away, at a certain unclean place outside the city.
41. Then the priest must have all the inside of the house scraped. The people must throw away the plaster they scraped off the walls, at a certain unclean place outside the city.
42. Then the owner must put new stones in the walls, and he must cover the walls with new clay plaster.
43. “Suppose a person has taken away the old stones and plaster and put in new stones and plaster. If mildew again appears in his house,
44. the priest must come back and check the house again. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a mildew that destroys things; the house is unclean.
45. Then the owner must tear down the house, remove all its stones, plaster, and wood, and take them to the unclean place outside the city.
46. Anyone who goes into that house while it is closed up will be unclean until evening.