I will send it out,’ #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies #– #‘and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.’
Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to abhor and detest it utterly because it is set apart for destruction.
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon, two and a half kilograms of silver, and a bar of gold weighing half a kilogram, I coveted them and took them. You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under the cloak.’
The priest must order them to clear the house before he enters to examine the contamination, so that nothing in the house becomes unclean. Afterwards the priest will come to examine the house.