Leviticus 14:36
The priest must order the house to be emptied before he goes in to inspect the mold, so that nothing in the house will be declared unclean. Once that's done, the priest is to go in and inspect the house.
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In Context
35the owner of the house must come and tell the priest, ‘It seems my house has something like mold.’
Cross References
Numbers 19:15Any open container there that doesn't have a closed lid is unclean.
2 Timothy 2:17Their teachings are as destructive as gangrene that destroys healthy flesh. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like this.
Revelation 18:4Then I heard another voice from heaven calling out, “My people, come out of her, so that you don't participate in her sinful ways, and so that you don't experience 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 →