4. he will order someone to bring out two live birds that are acceptable for sacrifice, together with a stick of cedar wood, a piece of red yarn, and a branch from a hyssop plant.
5. The priest will order someone to kill one of the birds over a clay pot of spring water.
6. Then he will dip the other bird, the cedar, the red yarn, and the hyssop in the blood of the dead bird.
7. Next, he will sprinkle you seven times with the blood and say, “You are now clean.” Finally, he will release the bird and let it fly away.
8. After this you must wash your clothes, shave your entire body, and take a bath before you are completely clean. You may move back into camp, but you must not enter your tent for seven days.
9. Then you must once again shave your head, face, and eyebrows, as well as the hair on the rest of your body. Finally, wash your clothes and take a bath, and you will be completely clean.
29-31. And he will pour the rest of the oil from his palm on your head.Then, depending on what you can afford, he will offer either the doves or the pigeons together with the grain sacrifice. One of the birds is the sacrifice for sin, and the other is the sacrifice to please me. After this you will be completely clean.
32. These are the things you must do if you have leprosy and cannot afford the usual sacrifices to make you clean.
33. The Lord told Moses and Aaron to say to the people:
34. After I have given you the land of Canaan as your permanent possession, here is what you must do, if I ever put mildew on the walls of any of your homes.
35. First, you must say to a priest, “I think mildew is on the wall of my house.”
36. The priest will reply, “Empty the house before I inspect it, or else everything in it will be unclean.”
37. If the priest discovers greenish or reddish spots that go deeper than the surface of the walls,
38. he will have the house closed for seven days.
39. Then he will return and check to see if the mildew has spread.
40-41. If so, he will order someone to scrape the plaster from the walls, remove the filthy stones, then haul everything off and dump it in an unclean place outside the town.
42. Afterwards the wall must be repaired with new stones and fresh plaster.