The second aliyah continues to describe the procedures used when a person contracts the spiritual disease of tzoraas. The disease of tzoraas can break out on a person's skin, their clothes, or the walls of their house. Various sins are said to cause tzoraas, included are: conceit or arrogance, loshen hora, acting miserly, idol worship (this was the punishment after the golden calf), immorality, murder, blaspheming G-d, robbing the public, and a person acting in a capacity not permitted to him.