“And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;”
He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall. The diagnostic criteria for house mold parallel the skin disease criteria: greenish or reddish coloring (as in the fabric mildew of 13:49) and depth that appears greater than the surrounding surface (as in the skin disease examination). The consistent application of the color and depth criteria to the house evaluation framework communicates the systematic character of the Levitical clean/unclean system across all its domains.
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