Leviticus 14:46

46 Whoever enters the house during any of the days the priest quarantines it will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 14:46 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 14:46

Moreover, he that goeth into the house all the while it is
shut up
The utmost of which were three weeks, as Jarchi observes; during the time a house was shut up, no man might enter it: if he did, he shall be unclean until the evening;
might not have any conversation with men until the evening was come, and he had washed himself; nay, according to the Misnah ^F17, if a clean person thrust in his head, or the greatest part of his body, into an unclean house, he was defiled; and whoever entered into a leprous house, and his clothes are on his shoulder, and his sandals (on his feet), and his rings on his hands, he and they are unclean immediately; and if he has his clothes on, and his sandals on his feet, and his rings on his hands, he is immediately defiled, and they are clean.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 8, 9.

Leviticus 14:46 In-Context

44 the priest must come and examine it. If the contamination has spread in the house, it is harmful mildew; the house is unclean.

45 It must be torn down with its stones, its beams, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

46 Whoever enters the house during any of the days the priest quarantines it will be unclean until evening.

47 Whoever lies down in the house is to wash his clothes, and whoever eats in it is to wash his clothes.

48 "But when the priest comes and examines it, if the contamination has not spread in the house after it was replastered, he is to pronounce the house clean because the contamination has disappeared.