Leviticus 14:38

38 then let the preast go out at the housse dores ad shett vp the housse for .vij. dayes.

Leviticus 14:38 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 14:38

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, as follows: and shut up the house seven days:
to observe what alteration would be made in that time, and which would sooner be discovered in a house uninhabited.

Leviticus 14:38 In-Context

36 And the preast shall comaunde them to ryd all thinge out of the housse, before the preaste goo in to se the plage: that he make not all that is in the housse vncleane, and then the preast shall goo in and se the housse.

37 Yf the preast se that the plage is in the walles of the housse ad that there be holowe strakes pale or rede which seme to be lower than the other partes of the wall,

38 then let the preast go out at the housse dores ad shett vp the housse for .vij. dayes.

39 And let the preast come againe the seuenth daye ad se it: yf the plage be encreased in the walles of the housse,

40 let the preast comaunde the to take awaye the stones in which the plage is, ad let the cast the in a foule place without the citie,