Once you're over your skin disease, the priest examines you. Then he gathers up a bunch of materials (two live birds that are ceremonially clean - but only one is killed, the other is released afterward, a stick of cedar,s some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch) and boils them together, then sprinkles it over the person 7 times before he's pronounced clean again. Then that person has to wash his clothes, bathe, and shave off all his hair. He has to wait 7 days before he can come back to the camp, and just before returning, he has to shave all his hair - eyebrows, beard, head, everything! The he has to sacrifice some animals for the guilt offering and grain for the grain offering to the Lord.
What to do if you have mildew in your house
Go to the priest and have him examine your house (So not only is the priest performing tasks of a doctor, he's also a home inspection agent. Busy man!). If he finds mold, then he closes down your house for 7 days. Pray that it doesn't spread, because if he does, then he orders for the moldy stones to be thrown into an unclean place out of town (is it like their version of a landfill?). Then all the inside walls have to be scraped and replastered. If the mold comes back, then the house is torn down. :( If the mold doesn't spread, then the priest will purify the house using the same ingredients for the skin disease.
This is crazy how much work they go through in order to be clean! That is funny that the Priest is both a doctor and a home inspection man!
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