43 "If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered, 44 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. 45 It must be torn down—its stones, timbers and all the plaster—and taken out of the town to an unclean place.
46 "Anyone who goes into the house while it is closed up will be unclean till evening. 47Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash his clothes.
48 "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. 49 To purify the house he is to take two birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop. 50 He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot. 51 Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times. 52 He shall purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn. 53 Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean."
Weird huh? Don't worry, we won't be killing doves anytime soon. I just thought it was funny that I found a whole process of how to get rid of mold for our house in our Bible Study. I really cannot imagine asking the senior pastor of our church to do this, so it kind of made me laugh, a little and then worry that I was going straight to hell for laughing at the Bible.
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No need to apologize, as this is serious business and not anything to take light-heartedly as my family has dealt with the second most toxic mold, Aspergillus Niger which can cause fungal leukemia in children and it got into my son's ear and took up house. It took up house in my son's ear like a tic sac full of blood, except it was bursting live spores into his 1 year old body. Needless to say, it took over 1 year to rid his body of the mycelium ball sac. The wonderful news about this verse is it gives a method to rid the house of mold. Humans have been dealing with mold for thousands of years and I am faithful that the Bible's testimony is a significant direction in how people of modern times can learn from ancient techniques.
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