“Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:”
He is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town. The defiled stones are removed and discarded outside the town — the same outside-the-precinct disposal as defiled fabric and defiled sin offerings. The stones that have absorbed the mold must be physically removed from the structure. The surgical removal of the defiled stones mirrors the surgical removal of the mildewed area from fabric in 13:56. The partial removal may preserve the rest of the structure if the mold is limited to identifiable stones.
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