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Leviticus 14:33-57 — Cleansing from Mildew

Lev.14.33-57

³³Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ³⁴"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you as a possession, and I put an infection of a defiling disease in a house in the land of your possession, ³⁵the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'Something like an infection has appeared to me in the house.' ³⁶The priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to examine the infection, so that everything in the house will not become unclean. Afterward, the priest shall go in to examine the house. ³⁷He shall examine the infection, and if the infection in the walls of the house consists of greenish or reddish depressions, and they appear deeper than the surface of the wall, ³⁸then the priest shall go out of the house to the doorway of the house, and shut up the house for seven days. ³⁹The priest shall return on the seventh day and examine it. If the infection has spread in the walls of the house, ⁴⁰then the priest shall command that they pull out the stones that have the infection in them and throw them into an unclean place outside the city. ⁴¹He shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and they shall dump the plaster that they scraped off into an unclean place outside the city. ⁴²They shall take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house. ⁴³"If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, and after the house has been scraped, and after it has been plastered, ⁴⁴then the priest shall come and examine it. If the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant defiling disease in the house; it is unclean. ⁴⁵He shall tear down the house—its stones, its timbers, and all the plaster of the house—and he shall take them outside the city to an unclean place. ⁴⁶"Moreover, anyone who enters the house during any of the days that it is shut up shall be unclean until evening. ⁴⁷Whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes. ⁴⁸"But if the priest comes in and examines it, and indeed the infection has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the infection is healed. ⁴⁹To purify the house, he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop. ⁵⁰He shall slaughter one of the birds in a clay pot over fresh water. ⁵¹Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and in the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times. ⁵²He shall purify the house with the blood of the bird, with the fresh water, with the live bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet yarn. ⁵³But he shall let the live bird go outside the city into the open field. Thus he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean." ⁵⁴This is the law for any infection of a defiling disease, and for a scaly outbreak, ⁵⁵and for a defiling disease of a garment or of a house, ⁵⁶and for a swelling, and for a rash, and for a bright spot, ⁵⁷to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law of the defiling disease.

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4/11/2026

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