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.
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.
43. If the mildew appears a second time,
44. the priest will come and say, “This house is unclean. It's covered with mildew that can't be removed.”
45. Then he will have the house torn down and every bit of wood, stone, and plaster hauled off to an unclean place outside the town.
46. Meanwhile, if any of you entered the house while it was closed, you will be unclean until evening.
47. And if you either slept or ate in the house, you must wash your clothes.
48. On the other hand, if the priest discovers that mildew hasn't reappeared after the house was newly plastered, he will say, “This house is clean—the mildew has gone.”
49. Then, to show that the house is now clean, he will get two birds, a stick of cedar wood, a piece of red yarn, and a branch from a hyssop plant and bring them to the house.
50. He will kill one of the birds over a clay pot of spring water