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Leviticus 14:36

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The priest must order that the house be cleared before he enters it to examine the mildew, so that nothing in the house will become unclean. After this, the priest shall go in to inspect the house.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goeth in 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:

KJV

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:

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This verse in Leviticus 14

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The words, "I put the leprosy," has led many to think that this plague was a judicial infliction from heaven for the sins of the owner; while others do not regard it in this light, it being common in Scripture to represent God as doing that which He only permits in His providence to be done.

This site's exposition

spake unto Moses and unto Aaron

on Leviticus 14:33-36

This law is dated forward to a country Israel has not entered, since tents in the wilderness have no stone walls to hold a plague. The LORD says I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession, and it is the one place in these two chapters where the affliction is claimed in the first person. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown record that some readers take that as a judgment sent on the owner while others read it as the ordinary way Scripture speaks of what God permits, and Adam Clarke takes the second reading. The house is emptied before the priest walks in, so its contents are spared, and nothing inside counts unclean until he has looked and spoken.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

That all be not made unclean - It is observable here, that neither the people nor the household stuff were polluted till the leprosy was discovered and declared by the priest, to shew what great difference God makes between sins of ignorance, and sins against knowledge.
Then the priest shall command that they empty the house,....

The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְצִוָּ֨הand he will command

    vetzivahH6680 →494 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֜ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • וּפִנּ֣וּand people will make clear

    ufinuH6437 →135 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַבַּ֗יִתthe house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

  • בְּטֶ֨רֶם<in> before

    beteremH2962 →

  • יָבֹ֤אhe will go

    yavo'H935 →2568 times

  • הַכֹּהֵן֙the priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • לִרְא֣וֹתto see

    lirotH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַנֶּ֔גַעthe plague

    hanega'H5061 →78 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יִטְמָ֖אit will be unclean

    yitma'H2930 →162 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בַּבָּ֑יִת[is] in the house

    babayitH1004 →2046 times

  • וְאַ֥חַרand after

    veacharH310 →715 times

  • כֵּ֛ןthus

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • יָבֹ֥אhe will go

    yavo'H935 →2568 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֖ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • לִרְא֥וֹתto see

    lirotH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַבָּֽיִת׃the house

    habayitH1004 →2046 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Corinthians 15:33

    Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 13:20

      He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

    • Matthew 24:4

      Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.

    • 1 Corinthians 5:6

      Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

    • Proverbs 9:6

      Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”

    • Ephesians 5:6

      Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

  • Through

    Revelation 18:4

    Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 6:17

      “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

    • Isaiah 52:11

      Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

    • Jeremiah 51:6

      Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

Where this verse is studied

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About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 14 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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