4. the priest shall order two ritually clean birds to be brought, together with a piece of cedar wood, a red cord, and a sprig of hyssop.
5. Then the priest shall order one of the birds to be killed over a clay bowl containing fresh spring water.
6. He shall take the other bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the red cord, and the hyssop, in the blood of the bird that was killed.
7. He shall sprinkle the blood seven times on the person who is to be purified from his skin disease, and then he shall pronounce him clean. He shall let the live bird fly away over the open fields.
8. The person shall wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and have a bath; he will then be ritually clean. He may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent for seven days.
9. On the seventh day he shall again shave his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and all the rest of the hair on his body; he shall wash his clothes and have a bath, and then he will be ritually clean.
34-35. the following regulations about houses affected by spreading mildew. (These were to apply after the people of Israel entered the land of Canaan, which the Lord was going to give them as their possession.) If someone finds that the Lord has sent mildew on his house, then he must go and tell the priest about it.
36. The priest shall order everything to be moved out of the house before he goes to examine the mildew; otherwise everything in the house will be declared unclean. Then he shall go to the house
37. and examine the mildew. If there are greenish or reddish spots that appear to be eating into the wall,
38. he shall leave the house and lock it up for seven days.
39. On the seventh day he shall return and examine it again. If the mildew has spread,
40. he shall order the stones on which the mildew is found to be removed and thrown into some unclean place outside the city.
41. After that he must have all the interior walls scraped and the plaster dumped in an unclean place outside the city.
42. Then other stones are to be used to replace the stones that were removed, and new plaster will be used to cover the walls.
43. If the mildew breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and plastered,
44. the priest shall go and look. If it has spread, the house is unclean.
45. It must be torn down, and its stones, its wood, and all its plaster must be carried out of the city to an unclean place.
46. Anyone who enters the house while it is locked up will be unclean until evening.
47. Anyone who lies down or eats in the house must wash his clothes.
48. If, when the priest comes to look, the mildew has not reappeared after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house ritually clean, because the mildew has been completely removed.