Leviticus 14:36

The priest must order that the house be cleared before he enters it to examine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will become unclean. After this, the priest shall go in to inspect the house.

Berean Standard Bible

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

35the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘Something like mildew has appeared in my house.’

37He is to examine the house, and if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,

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Cross References

Numbers 19:15and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.

2 Timothy 2:17and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Revelation 18:4Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.

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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