then the priest is to go out of the house to the doorway of the house and quarantine the house for seven days.

for the diseased garment, for the house,

then whoever owns the house must come and declare to the priest, ‘Something like an infection is visible to me in the house.’

Anyone who lies down in the house must wash his clothes. Anyone who eats in the house must wash his clothes.

Then he is to have the house scraped all around on the inside, and the plaster which is scraped off must be dumped outside the city into an unclean place.

“If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered,

the priest is to come and examine it, and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant disease in the house. It is unclean.

He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.

Then the priest will command that the house be cleared before the priest enters to examine the infection so that everything in the house does not become unclean, and afterward the priest will enter to examine the house.

“If, however, the priest enters and examines it, and the infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.

The priest must return on the seventh day and examine it, and if the infection has spread in the walls of the house,

Anyone who enters the house all the days the priest has quarantined it will be unclean until evening.

Then he is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop to decontaminate the house,

Then Aaron is to present the sin offering bull which is for himself and is to make atonement on behalf of himself and his household.

As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.

If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him.

Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem – the sale of a house which is his property in a city – must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

“When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give to you for a possession, and I put a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess,

He is to examine the infection, and if the infection in the walls of the house consists of yellowish green or reddish eruptions, and it appears to be deeper than the surface of the wall,

They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.