Leviticus 14:33-57

Modern English Version

The Law About Leprous Houses

³³ The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: ³⁴ When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you for a possession, and I put a leprous disease in a house of the land of your possession, ³⁵ then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, “It seems to me there is some disease in the house.” ³⁶ Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes into it to examine the disease, so that all that is in the house is not made unclean. Afterwards, the priest shall go in to examine the house. ³⁷ He shall examine the disease and see if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, which appear to go deeper than the wall. ³⁸ Then the priest shall go out to the door of the house and close off the house seven days. ³⁹ The priest shall return on the seventh day and shall examine and see if the disease has spread in the walls of the house. ⁴⁰ Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the disease appears and throw them into an unclean place outside the city. ⁴¹ And he shall cause the house to be scraped all around, and they shall pour out the plaster that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place. ⁴² And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and shall plaster the house.

⁴³ If the disease comes again and breaks out in the house after he has taken away the stones and after he has scraped the house and after it is plastered, ⁴⁴ then the priest shall come and examine and see if the disease has spread in the house. If the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprosy in the house; it is unclean. ⁴⁵ He shall break down the house, the stones and the timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.

⁴⁶ Moreover, he who goes into the house while it is closed off shall be unclean until the evening. ⁴⁷ And he who sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

⁴⁸ If the priest comes in and examines it and sees the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the disease is healed. ⁴⁹ He shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop to cleanse the house. ⁵⁰ Then he shall kill one of the birds in a clay vessel over running water. ⁵¹ He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. ⁵² Then he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet. ⁵³ But he shall let the living bird loose outside the city into the open fields and make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.

⁵⁴ This is the law for all manner of leprous sore and scale, ⁵⁵ and for the disease of a garment, or of a house, ⁵⁶ and for a swelling, or for a scab, or for a spot, ⁵⁷ to discern when it is unclean and when it is clean.

This is the law of leprosy.