The Lord continued with His instructions, saying:
"These are the decrees for the one stricken with disease when the time of cleansing has come, and they are brought before the priest. The priest shall go outside the camp and examine them. If the plague of the skin has been healed, then the priest shall command that two living clean birds be brought, with cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.
One bird shall be slain in an earthen vessel over fresh water. Then the priest shall take the living bird, the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the slain bird over the fresh water. He shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed seven times and pronounce them clean. Then he shall release the living bird into the open field, a sign of freedom and cleansing.
The one to be cleansed shall wash their garments, shave all their hair, and bathe themselves in water. Then they shall be clean and may come into the camp, but they must remain outside their own tent for seven days. On the seventh day they shall shave all their hair again—the head, the beard, the eyebrows, every strand. They shall wash their clothes, bathe in water, and be made clean.
On the eighth day, they shall bring two male lambs without blemish, one ewe lamb a year old, three-tenths of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one measure of oil. The priest shall present the one to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the Lord at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
Then the priest shall take one male lamb and the oil and offer them as a guilt offering before the Lord with a wave. He shall slaughter the lamb in the holy place, where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Some of the blood of the guilt offering he shall place upon the right ear lobe, the right thumb, and the right big toe of the one being cleansed. Then, taking the oil, he shall pour some into the palm of his own hand, dip his finger, and sprinkle it before the Lord seven times. With the rest, he shall anoint the ear, the thumb, and the toe—upon the very spots where the blood was placed—and pour the remainder upon the head of the one cleansed, making atonement before the Lord.
Afterward, the priest shall offer the sin offering, then the burnt offering with the grain, and in this way he shall make full atonement for the one cleansed, and they shall be declared clean.
But if the person is poor and cannot afford all these things, they shall bring one male lamb for a guilt offering, a tenth of flour mingled with oil, one measure of oil, and two turtledoves or two pigeons—one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. The priest shall perform the same rites with the blood and the oil, anointing the ear, the thumb, and the toe, and pour the remainder upon the head, and thus atonement shall be made.
And the Lord spoke further to Moses and Aaron, saying:
"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I send a plague of mildew into a house in that land, then the owner shall go to the priest and say, 'There seems to me a mark of mildew in my house.' The priest shall command that the house be emptied before he enters to examine it, so that nothing within is declared unclean. Then he shall go in and look upon the house. If he sees greenish or reddish depressions that seem deeper than the surface, he shall shut the house for seven days.
On the seventh day he shall return, and if the mildew has spread, he shall command the stones to be torn out and cast into an unclean place. The house shall be scraped inside, and new stones and plaster shall be put in. But if the mildew returns and spreads, it is a malignant growth. The house is unclean and must be torn down—its stones, its wood, and its plaster—all carried outside the city to an unclean place. Whoever enters that house while it is shut shall be unclean until evening; whoever sleeps or eats within must wash their clothes.
But if, after replastering, the mildew does not spread, the priest shall declare the house clean. To purify it, he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop. One bird shall be slain in fresh water, and with the living bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn dipped into the blood, he shall sprinkle the house seven times. Then the living bird shall be released into the open field, and atonement shall be made for the house, and it shall be declared clean."