Mold and the Bible - New Version

November 1, 2007

Biblical Instructions On Mold Remediation

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October 31, 2007

From the New International Version

Leviticus 14:33-48

The Lord said to Moses and , " When you enter the land of

Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a

spreading mildew in a house in that land, the owner of the house

must go and tell the priest, 'I have seen something that looks like

mildew in my house.' "

The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to

examine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced

unclean.

After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house. He is to

examine the mildew on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish

depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,

the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for

seven days.

On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If

the mildew has spread on the walls, he is to order that the

contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place

outside the town.

He must have all the inside walls of the house scraped and the

material that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside

the town. Then they are to take other stones to replace these and

take new clay and plaster the house.

" If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been

torn out and the house scraped and plastered, the priest is to go

and examine it and, if the mildew has spread in the house, it is a

destructive mildew; the house is unclean.

It must be torn down—its stones, timbers and all the plaster—and

taken out of the town to an unclean place. Anyone who goes into the

house while it is closed up will be unclean till evening. Anyone who

sleeps or eats in the house must wash his clothes.

But if the priest comes to examine it and the mildew has not spread

after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house

clean, because the mildew is gone.

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