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. 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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“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, 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. 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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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.
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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Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
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then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
Cross-references (14)
- Leviticus 13:51-52 (v44) He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the…
- 1 Kings 9:6-9 (v45) But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but…
- 2 Kings 10:27 (v45) They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
- 2 Kings 17:20-23 (v45) Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of…
- 2 Kings 18:4 (v45) He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had…
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- 2 Kings 25:4-12 (v45) Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the…
- 2 Kings 25:25-26 (v45) But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring came, and ten men with him, and struck…
- Jeremiah 52:13 (v45) He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
- Ezekiel 5:4 (v45) Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all…
- Zechariah 5:4 (v44) I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears…
- Matthew 22:7 (v45) When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
- Matthew 24:2 (v45) But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another,…
- Romans 11:7-11 (v45) What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. According as it…
- Revelation 11:2 (v45) Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v45 That is, he shall command it to be pulled…
That is, he shall command it to be pulled down, as verse 40.
Or, dust.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv44–45 And if the priest shall come in, and look…
And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it,.... That is, on the seventh day of the second week of its being shut up:
and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; See Gill on Lev 14:42,
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then the priest shall pronounce the house clean; fit to be inhabited, and so no more to be shut up, but free for use as before:
because the plague is healed; the infection being wholly removed by taking out the stones, scraping, and plastering the house, and so an entire stop put to the spread of it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v45 Verse 45. He shall break down the house] "On…
Verse 45. He shall break down the house] "On the suspicion of a house being infected, the priest examined it, and ordered it to be shut up seven days; if he found the plague, or signs of the plague, (hollow streaks, greenish or reddish,) were not spread, he commanded it to be shut up seven days more. On the thirteenth day he revisited it; and if he found the infected place dim, or gone away, he took out that part of the wall, carried it out to an unclean place, mended the wall, and caused the whole house to be new plastered. It was then shut up a third seven days, and he came on the nineteenth, and if he found that the plague was broken out anew, he ordered the house to be pulled down." See Ainsworth. From all this may we not learn a lesson of instruction? If the means made use of by God and his ministers for the conversion of a sinner be, through his wilful obstinacy, rendered of no avail; if by his evil practices he trample under foot the blood of the covenant wherewith he might have been sanctified, and do despite to the Spirit of God; then God will pull down his house-dislodge his soul from its earthly tabernacle, consign the house, the body, to corruption, and the spirit to the perdition of ungodly men. Reader, see well how it stands with thy soul. God is not mocked: what a man soweth, that shall he reap.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv44–45 44. Fretting leprosy — See Lev_13:51. The whole mode…
44. Fretting leprosy — See Lev_13:51. The whole mode of the diagnosis is strikingly like that of the leprosy in man, while there is probably no connexion between the two plagues.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On v45 As the leper was removed from the camp, so…
As the leper was removed from the camp, so the leprous house is to be utterly pulled down; the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and all its materials carried forth eat of the city into an unclean place.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v45 The house must be torn down
The house must be torn down
This can be translated in active form. AT: "They must tear the house down" (See: Active or Passive)
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The stones, timber, and all the plaster in the house must be carried away
This can be translated in active form. AT: "They must carry away the stones, timber, and all the plaster in the house" (See: Active or Passive)
whoever goes into the house ... will be unclean
A person whom other people may not touch and who is not acceptable for God's purposes because he has entered the house is spoken of as if the person were physically unclean. (See: Metaphor)
until evening
"until sunset"
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clean
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