Leviticus 14:41

41 He is to have the inside of the house completely scraped, and the plaster^[a] that is scraped off must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.

Leviticus 14:41 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 14:41

And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round
about
All the walls on each side, and at each end, and every stone in them; which, though they had no appearance on them, yet should there be any infection in them, which as yet was not seen, it might be removed, and a spread prevented: and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the
city, into an unclean place;
the scrapings they were to put into some vessel, and carry them thither and pour them out, or into a cart, and there throw them, that they might lie with other rubbish, and not be made use of any more.

Leviticus 14:41 In-Context

39 The priest is to return on the seventh day and examine it. If the contamination has spread on the walls of the house,

40 the priest must order that the stones with the contamination be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

41 He is to have the inside of the house completely scraped, and the plaster that is scraped off must be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.

42 Then they must take different stones to replace the [former] ones and take additional plaster to replaster the house.

43 "If the contamination reappears in the house after the stones have been pulled out, and after the house has been scraped and replastered,

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit dust