Leviticus 14:36

and the priest shall give command, and they shall empty the house, ere yet the priest cometh in to view the mark, so that he do not pronounce unclean all that is in the house,—and, after this, shall the priest come in to view the house:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

35then shall he that owneth the house come in, and tell the priest, saying,—A kind of plague-mark, appeareth to me in the house;

37then shall he view the mark and lo! if the mark is in the walls of the house, with sunken places greenish yellow or reddish,—and they appear to be lower than the [surface of the] wall,

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Cross References

Numbers 19:15And, in the case of every open vessel, on which no cover is fastened, unclean, it is.

2 Timothy 2:17And, their discourse, as a gangrene, will eat its way;—of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Revelation 18:4And I heard another voice out of heaven, saying—Come forth, my people, out of her,—that ye may have no fellowship with her sins, and, of her plagues, that ye may not receive;

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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