Leviticus 14:44

44 then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a 1persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean.

Leviticus 14:44 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 14:44

Then the priest shall come and look
On the seventh day of the second week; though, according to Maimonides F15, this was at the end of the third seven day, or on the nineteenth day from his first inspection into it; the seventh day being reckoned for the last of the first week, and the first of the second, and so on: and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the house;
after all the above precaution is taken; it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house;
like that in the garment, (See Gill on Leviticus 13:51): it [is] unclean;
and so not to be inhabited.


FOOTNOTES:

F15 Hilchot Tumaat Tzarat, c. 15. sect. 1, 2.

Leviticus 14:44 In-Context

42 Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.
43 "If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,
44 then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean.
45 And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place.
46 Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening,

Cross References 1

  • 1. Leviticus 13:51, 52
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