Leviticus 14:36

And he shall instruct them to carry all things out of the house, before he would enter it and see whether it is leprosy, lest all that is in the house become unclean. And after this, he shall enter to examine the leprosy of the house.

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In The King James Version

Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:

In Context

35he whose house it is shall go and report to the priest, saying: “It seems to me that the mark of leprosy is in my house.”

37And when he will have seen in its walls something like little hollows, deformed with paleness or redness, and lower than the remaining surface,

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Cross References

Numbers 19:15The vessel that has no cover or binding over it shall be unclean.

2 Timothy 2:17And their word spreads like a cancer: among these are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Revelation 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: “Go away from her, my people, so that you may not be participants in her pleasures, and so that you may not be recipients of her afflictions.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 14:34-54

33 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: 36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward… Read the whole commentary →

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