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then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which is the plague, and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city.
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And he shall cause the house to be scraped inside, all around, and the dust that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.
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Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other mortar and plaster the house.
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"Now if the plague comes back and breaks out in the house, after he has taken away the stones, after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered,
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then the priest shall come and look; and indeed if the plague has spread in the house, it is an active leprosy in the house. It is unclean.
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And he shall break down the house, its stones, its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place.
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Moreover he who goes into the house at all while it is shut up shall be unclean until evening.
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And he who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
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"But if the priest comes in and examines it, and indeed the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
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And he shall take, to cleanse the house, two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
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Then he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water;