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Leviticus 14:33
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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"When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,
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then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.'
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The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
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He shall examine the plague; and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;
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then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
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The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
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then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:
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and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scraped off, outside of the city into an unclean place.
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They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
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"If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
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then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.
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He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
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"Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
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He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
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"If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and, behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
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To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

There is nothing new under the sun. This 3,000 + year old passage shows two things: God wanted the Jews to be careful around mold; and that modern building codes, materials and practices have little to do with the problem.

[Restorer]

There is nothing new under the sun. This 3,000 + year old passage shows two things: God wanted the Jews to be careful around mold; and that modern building codes, materials and practices have little to do with the problem.

I strongly suspect that the rate at which the problem occurs is far greater than 3000 years ago. A very rare problem then is becoming a very common problem today.

Drywall, EIFS, OSB, Tyvek, particle board, polyethylene and many other problem (when misused) materials were rather rare then. :)