Leviticus 14:35

35 the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.’

Leviticus 14:35 in Other Translations

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:

35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, 'There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.'

35 The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, ‘It appears that my house has some kind of mildew.’

35 the householder is to go and tell the priest, 'I have some kind of fungus in my house.'

35 the owner of the house is to come and tell the priest: Something like mildew contamination has appeared in my house.

Leviticus 14:35 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 14:35

And he that owneth the house shall come, and tell the priest,
&c.] As soon as he observes any sign of leprosy in it, or which gives him a suspicion of it: saying, it seemeth unto me [there is] as it were a plague in the
house;
he must not say expressly there is one, how certain soever he may be of it, because the matter must be determined by a priest: so runs the Jewish canon ^F9, he whose the house is comes and declares to the priest, saying, there appears to me as a plague in the house; and though he is a wise man, and knows that there is a plague certainly, he may not determine, and say, there appears to me a plague in the house, but there appears to me as it were a plague in the house; it looks like one, there is some reason to suspect it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 5. Jarchi in loc.

Leviticus 14:35 In-Context

33 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

34 “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land,

35 the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.’

36 The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.

37 He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,