Leviticus 14:41

41 Then they shall scrape off [the plaster] from all around the house, and they shall pour out the plaster, which they scraped off, {outside the city} on an unclean place.

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 And the priest shall return on the seventh day, and he shall examine [the infection], and {if} the infection has spread on the house's wall,

40 the priest shall [issue a] command and they shall remove the stones on which [is] the infection, and they shall throw them {outside the city} on an unclean place.

41 Then they shall scrape off [the plaster] from all around the house, and they shall pour out the plaster, which they scraped off, {outside the city} on an unclean place.

42 And they shall take other stones, and they shall {put} [them] in place of [those] stones, and they shall take other plaster, and they shall replaster the house.

43 "But if the infection should return and it breaks out in the house after they have removed the stones and after scraping off [the plaster] of the house and after it has been replastered,

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "And"
• [b]. Hebrew "he"
• [c]. The direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [d]. See HALOT 862 s.v. 3.b
• [e]. Literally "to from an outside place of the city"