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Leviticus 14:29-39

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29 The priest will put whatever is left of the oil in his hand on the head of the person needing purification, to make reconciliation for them before the LORD.
30 The person will then offer one of the turtledoves or pigeons, whatever they can afford—
31 one as a purification offering and the other as an entirely burned offering along with the grain offering. In this way, the priest will make reconciliation before the LORD for the person needing purification.
32 This is the Instruction concerning those who have an infection of skin disease but who cannot afford the normal means of purification.

Houses with skin disease

33 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
34 When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you as a possession, and I put an infection of skin disease on a house in the land you possess,
35 the homeowner must come and tell the priest, "I think some sort of infection is in my house."
36 The priest will order that the house be emptied before he comes to examine it so that nothing else in the house will become unclean. After that, the priest will come to examine the house.
37 If he examines the infection, and the infection in the walls of the house consists of greenish or reddish depressions, which appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,
38 the priest will exit the house, go to the front door, and quarantine the house for seven days.
39 On the seventh day, the priest will return. If he finds that the infection has spread over the walls of the house,
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Leviticus 14:29-39 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 14

This chapter treats of the purification of lepers, and the rules to be observed therein; and first what the priest was to do for his cleansing when brought to him, by making use of two birds, with cedar wood, scarlet and hyssop, as directed, Le 14:1-7; what he was to do for himself, shaving off all his hair, and washing his flesh and clothes in water, Le 14:8,9; the offerings to be offered up for him, two he lambs and one ewe lamb, and a meat offering, with a particular account of the use of the blood of the trespass offering, and of oil put upon the tip of his right ear, the thumb of his right hand, and the great toe of his right foot, Le 14:10-20; but if poor, only one lamb was required, a meat offering of one tenth deal, and two turtle doves or two young pigeons, and blood and oil used as before, Le 14:21-32; next follow an account of leprosy in an house, and the signs of it, and the rules to judge of it, Le 14:33-48; and the manner of cleansing from it, Le 14:49-53; and the chapter is closed with a recapitulation of the several laws concerning the various sorts of leprosy in this and the preceding chapter, Le 14:54-57.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. LXX, Syr; MT repeats whatever they can afford at the beginning of 14:31.
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