Leviticus 14:38

38 the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.

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 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes into it to see the plague so that all that is in the house is not contaminated; and afterward the priest shall go in to recognize the house.

37 And he shall look on the plague, and if the plague is seen in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, which appear to be lower than the wall,

38 the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.

39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day and shall look; and if the plague has spread in the walls of the house,

40 then the priest shall command that they remove the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them outside the city into an unclean place;