Bible Verses About Sanitation

then the cohen is to order that the article having the infection be washed and isolated for seven more days.

The cohen is to examine it after the stain has been washed, and if he sees that the stain has not changed color, then, even though the stain has not spread, it is unclean; you are to burn it up completely - it is rotten, no matter whether the spot is on the outside or on the inside.

If the cohen examines it and sees that the stain has faded after being washed, then he is to tear the stain out of the garment, leather, threads or woven-in parts.

If it appears again in the garment, threads, woven-in parts or leather item, it is contagious, and you are to burn up completely the article that had the stain.

But if the infection is gone from the garment, threads, woven-in parts or leather item that you washed, then it is to be washed a second time, and it will be clean.

This is the law concerning infections of tzara'at in a garment of wool or linen, or in the threads or the woven-in parts, or in any leather item - when to declare it clean and when to declare it unclean.

"This is to be the law concerning the person afflicted with tzara'at on the day of his purification. He is to be brought to the cohen,

and the cohen is to go outside the camp and examine him there. If he sees that the tzara'at sores have been healed in the afflicted person,

He who is to be purified must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water. Then he will be clean; and after that, he may enter the camp; but he must live outside his tent for seven days.

On the seventh day he is to shave all the hair off his head, also his beard and eyebrows - he must shave off all his hair; and he is to wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; and he will be clean.

"When you have entered the land of Kena'an which I am giving you as a possession, and I put an infection of tzara'at in a house in the land that you possess,

then the owner of the house is to come and tell the cohen, 'It seems to me that there may be an infection in the house.'

The cohen is to order the house emptied before he goes in to inspect the infection, so that everything in the house won't be made unclean; afterwards, the cohen is to enter and inspect the house.

He will examine the infection; and if he sees that the infection is in the walls of the house, with greenish or reddish depressions that seem to go in deeper than the surface of the wall,

he is to go out of the house to its door and seal up the house for seven days.

The cohen will come again on the seventh day and examine the house; if he sees that the infection has spread over its walls,

he is to order them to remove the infected stones and throw them into some unclean place outside the city.

Next, he is to have the inside of the house thoroughly scraped, and the scraped-off plaster is to be discarded outside the city in an unclean place.

Finally, other stones must be set in the place of the first stones and other plaster used to replaster the house.

If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after the stones have been removed and the house scraped and plastered;

then the cohen is to enter and examine it. If he sees that the infection has spread in the house, it is a contagious tzara'at in the house; it is unclean.

He must break down the house and take its stones, timber and plaster out of the city to an unclean place.

Moreover, whoever enters the house at any time while it is sealed up will be unclean until evening.

Whoever lies down or eats in the house must wash his clothes.

If the cohen enters, examines and sees that the infection has not spread in the house since it was plastered; then he is to declare the house clean; because the infection is cured.