Leviticus 14:40

then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:

In Context

39And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

41And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place.

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Cross References

Leviticus 6:11(6-4) And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.

Psalms 101:7He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house; he that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.

Proverbs 25:4Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner;

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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