Leviticus 14:47

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

Leviticus 14:47 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 14:47

And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes
Which is more than bare entrance into it, and might be supposed the more to be infected by it, and therefore obliged to the washing of himself, and his garments: and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes;
if he stayed no longer than while he ate half a piece of wheaten bread he was clean, but not if he stayed so long as to eat a like quantity of barley bread, and sat down and ate it with food ^F18.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Misn. Negaim, c. 13. sect. 8, 9.

Leviticus 14:47 In-Context

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.

49 He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house,