43. “But suppose the contamination returns, breaking out in the house, after he has pulled out the stones and after he has scraped the house, and it has been re-plastered.
44. Then the kohen is to go examine, and behold, if the plague has spread within the house, it is a destructive mildew inside. It is unclean.
45. He is to break down the house, its stones, its timber, along with all the house’s mortar, and carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
46. “Moreover, whoever goes into the house while it is shut up will be unclean until the evening.
47. The one who lies down in the house must wash his clothes, and he who eats in the house must wash his clothes too.
48. “But if the kohen comes in, inspects it, and behold, the plague has not spread within the house after it was re-plastered, then he shall pronounce the house clean, because the contamination is healed.
49. In order to cleanse the house he is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet and hyssop.
50. He is to kill one of the birds in a clay pot over living water.
51. Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet and the living bird, and dip them into the blood of the slain bird as well as the living water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
52. He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, with the living water, with the living bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet.
53. But he is to let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So he is to make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”
54. This is the Torah for any mark of tza'arat—even for a scab,