Leviticus 14:47

47 And the person who sleeps in the house must wash his garments, and the person who eats in the house shall wash his garments.

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 So he shall break down the house, its stones and its wood and all of the house's plaster, and he shall bring [it all] {outside the city} to an unclean place.

46 And the person who enters into the house [during] all [the] days [that] he confined it shall become unclean until the evening.

47 And the person who sleeps in the house must wash his garments, and the person who eats in the house shall wash his garments.

48 "And if the priest comes again and examines [the house] and {if} the infection has not spread in the house after being replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the infection is healed.

49 And he shall take two birds and {cedar wood} and a {crimson thread} and hyssop to cleanse the house;