Leviticus 14:38

38 he must go out and close up the house for 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 must order the people to empty the house before he goes in to look at the mildew. This is so he will not have to say that everything in the house is unclean. After this, the priest will go in to look at it.

37 He will look at the mildew, and if the mildew on the walls of the house is green or red and goes into the wall's surface,

38 he must go out and close up the house for seven days.

39 On the seventh day the priest must come back and check the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls of the house,

40 the priest must order the people to tear out the stones with the mildew on them. They should throw them away, at a certain unclean place outside the city.