Bible Commentary

And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city into an unclean place. Verse 45. He shall break down the house] “On the suspicion of a house being infected, the priest examined … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:45”

Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the house, it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house: it [is] unclean. Then the priest shall come and look,…. On the seventh day of the second week; though, according to Maimonides o, this was at the end of the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:44”

And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered; And if the plague come again, and break out in the house,…. In the above signs of it: after that he hath taken … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:43”

And they shall take other stones, and put [them] in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house. And they shall take other stones,…. From elsewhere, such as are sound and whole: and put [them] in the place of these stones; such as will exactly answer them, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:42”

And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: The mortar or other rubbish. Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole And he shall cause the house to be scraped within … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:41”

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: Where they used to cast dirt and filthy things. Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole Then the priest shall command that they take … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:40”

And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the walls of the house; And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look,…. On the seventh day from his shutting of it up, he shall open it again, go into it, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:39”

Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days: Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house,…. Thereby signifying that it was not fit to be inhabited, and there standing to see it shut up, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:38”

And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, [if] the plague [be] in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, which in sight [are] lower than the wall; In the walls of the house this was an extraordinary judgment of God peculiar to this people, either as a punishment of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:37”

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: That they empty the house, i.e. the possessors of the house. It is … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:36”