Leviticus 14:38

38 egredietur ostium domus et statim claudet eam septem diebus

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 at ille praecipiet ut efferant universa de domo priusquam ingrediatur eam et videat utrum lepra sit ne inmunda fiant omnia quae in domo sunt intrabitque postea ut consideret domus lepram

37 et cum viderit in parietibus illius quasi valliculas pallore sive rubore deformes et humiliores superficie reliqua

38 egredietur ostium domus et statim claudet eam septem diebus

39 reversusque die septimo considerabit eam si invenerit crevisse lepram

40 iubebit erui lapides in quibus lepra est et proici eos extra civitatem in loco inmundo