43. “And if the plague comes back and breaks out in the house, after he has removed the stones, after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered,
44. then the priest shall come and look and see, if the plague has spread in the house, it is an active leprosy in the house, it is unclean.
45. “And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall bring them outside the city to an unclean place.
46. “And he who goes into the house, all the days while it is shut up, becomes unclean until evening.
47. “And he who lies down in the house has to wash his garments, and he who eats in the house has to wash his garments.
48. “However, if the priest indeed comes in and looks at it and sees that the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
49. “And to cleanse the house, he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
50. “And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water,
51. and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and shall sprinkle the house seven times.
52. “He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and the running water and the live bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet,
53. and he shall let the live bird loose outside the city in the open field, and shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
54. “This is the Torah for any infection of leprosy, and eruption,
55. and for leprosy of a garment, and of a house,