the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mold has spread in the house, it is a persistent defiling mold; the house is unclean.
“If the defiling mold reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered,
The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’ ”