Leviticus 14:40

40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city;

Leviticus 14:40 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 14:40

Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones
in which the plague [is]
In there appeared any cavities, or the above colours, and these spreading: in order to put a stop thereunto, these stones were to be drawn or pulled out, as the word signifies, in such manner as not to endanger the fall of the house, and two stones at least were to be taken out; for, as Gersom says, a house was not shut up unless the plague appeared on two stones: and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city;
where dead carcasses were laid, and dung, and filth of every sort; and being laid in such a place, it would be known that they were unclean, as Aben Ezra observes, and so would not be made use of for any purpose.

Leviticus 14:40 In-Context

38 then 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 on the seventh day, and look; and if the disease has spread in the walls of the house,

40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city;

41 and he shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped round about, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour into an unclean place outside the city;

42 then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.