Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:46
Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
Moreover, he that goeth into the house all the while it is shut up,…. The utmost of which were three weeks, as Jarchi observes; during the time a house was shut up, no man might enter it: if he did, he
shall be unclean until the evening; might not have any conversation with men until the evening was come, and he had washed himself; nay, according to the Misnah q, if a clean person thrust in his head, or the greatest part of his body, into an unclean house, he was defiled; and whoever entered into a leprous house, and his clothes are on his shoulder, and his sandals (on his feet), and his rings on his hands, he and they are unclean immediately; and if he has his clothes on, and his sandals on his feet, and his rings on his hands, he is immediately defiled, and they are clean.
q Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 8, 9.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Whoever went into the house during the time that it was closed, became unclean till the evening and had to wash himself; but whoever slept or ate therein during this time, was to wash his clothes, and of course was unclean till the evening. (Lev 14:46) may be a perfect tense, and a relative clause dependent upon , or it may be an infinitive for as in Lev 14:43.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(46) Moreover he that goeth into the house.If any one only momentarily entered the house whilst it was under quarantine, he contracted defilement, which lasted till sundown of the same day. After the priest declared it unclean, it defiled by simply touching it outside.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
THE CLEANSING OF A HOUSE SUSPECTED OF LEPROSY, Lev 14:46-57.
The same ceremony is to be performed for the house suspected of leprosy as takes place without the camp in the case of a man cured of this disease. The reason for this is not stated, but it is evident that after public attention had been directed toward the house by the priestly examination, and it had been pronounced clean, some formal and impressive notification of the priest’s verdict should be given in order to protect the house from depreciation in its value, and to assure its inhabitants against needless apprehensions. Hence Jehovah may, for this purpose, have selected the ritual which initiates the ceremonial cleansing of the leper.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
46. He that goeth into the house unclean The house defiles the occupant, and not the occupant the house. This is a sufficient answer to Knobel, who assumes that the house leprosy is a contagion taken from the leprous inhabitant.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
shall be unclean: Lev 11:24, Lev 11:25, Lev 11:28, Lev 15:5-8, Lev 15:10, Lev 17:15, Lev 22:6, Num 19:7-10, Num 19:21, Num 19:22