Leviticus 14:45

Bishop's Bible

And he shall breake downe the house, and the stones of it, and the timber therof, and all the morter of the house: and he shall cary them out of the citie into a foule place.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.

King James Version
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

Lexham English Bible
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.

New Century Version
Then the owner must tear down the house, remove all its stones, plaster, and wood, and take them to the unclean place outside the city.

New English Translation
He must tear down the house, its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it outside the city to an unclean place.

Amplified Bible
"He shall tear down the house—its stones and its timber and all the plaster of the house—and shall take everything outside the city to an unclean place.

New American Standard Bible
"The owner shall therefore tear down the house, its stones, its timbers, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an unclean place.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee shall breake downe the house, with the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house, and hee shall carie them out of the citie vnto an vncleane place.

Legacy Standard Bible
He shall therefore tear down the house, its stones and its timbers and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an unclean place.

Contemporary English Version
Then he will have the house torn down and every bit of wood, stone, and plaster hauled off to an unclean place outside the town.

Complete Jewish Bible
He must break down the house and take its stones, timber and plaster out of the city to an unclean place.

Darby Translation
And they shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house, and shall carry them forth out of the city to an unclean place.

Easy-to-Read Version
The house must be torn down. All the stones, plaster, and pieces of wood must be taken to the special unclean place outside the city.

English Standard Version
And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place.

George Lamsa Translation
And they shall demolish the house, its stones and its timber and all the mortar of the house; and they shall carry them forth out of the town into an unclean place and burn it with fire.

Good News Translation
It must be torn down, and its stones, its wood, and all its plaster must be carried out of the city to an unclean place.

Christian Standard Bible®
It must be torn down with its stones, its beams, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

Literal Translation
And he shall break down the house; its stones, and its wood, and all the clay of the house; and he shall carry it out to the outside of the city, to an unclean place.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
therfore shal the house be broken downe, both the stones, and ye tymber and all the dust of the house, and shal be caried out of the cite in to an vncleane place.

American Standard Version
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

Bible in Basic English
And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

King James Version (1611)
And he shall breake downe the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house: and he shall cary them foorth out of the city into an vncleane place.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they shall take down the house, and its timbers and its stones, and they shall carry out all the mortar without the city into an unclean place.

English Revised Version
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

Berean Standard Bible
It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
which hows thei schulen destrye anoon, and thei schulen caste out of the citee, in an vnclene place, the stoonys therof, and the trees, and al the dust.

Young's Literal Translation
`And he hath broken down the house, its stones, and its wood, and all the clay of the house, and he hath brought [them] forth unto the outside of the city, unto an unclean place.

Update Bible Version
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the mortar of the house: and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city to an unclean place.

World English Bible
He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.

New King James Version
And he shall break down the house, its stones, its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place.

New Living Translation
It must be torn down, and all its stones, timbers, and plaster must be carried out of town to the place designated as ceremonially unclean.

New Life Bible
He will tear down the house, its stones, wood, and all the covering of the house. And he will take the pieces outside the city to an unclean place.

New Revised Standard
He shall have the house torn down, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he shall pull down the house, - the stones thereof, and the timber thereof and all the mortar of the house, - and shall carry them forth outside the city, into an unclean place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust without the town into an unclean place.

Revised Standard Version
And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city to an unclean place.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He shall therefore tear down the house, its stones, and its timbers, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an unclean place.

Contextual Overview

³³ And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron, saying: ³⁴ When ye be come vnto the lande of Chanaan, which I geue you in possession, and yf I put the plague of leprosie in a house of the land of your possession: ³⁵ He that oweth the house shall come, & tell the priest, saying: Me thinke that there is as it were a plague in ye house. ³⁶ Then the priest shall comaunde them to emptie the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made vncleane: and the must the priest go in, to see the house. ³⁷ And he shall see the plague: and yf the plague be in the walles of the house, & that there be hollowe strakes, greenish or reddishe, which seeme to be lower then the wall it selfe: ³⁸ Then the priest shall go out of ye house, to the doore of the house, and shut vp the house seuen dayes. ³⁹ And the priest shall come agayne the seuenth day, & yf he see that the plague be increased in the walles of the house, ⁴⁰ Then the priest shall comaunde them to take away ye stones in which ye plague is, and let them cast them into a foule place without the citie, ⁴¹ And he shall commaunde the house to be scraped within rounde about, and powre out the dust that they scrape of, without the citie into a foule place. ⁴² And they shall take other stones, and put the in the place of those stones, and other morter to plaster ye house withall.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

break down: 1 Kings 9:6-9, 2 Kings 10:27, 2 Kings 17:20-23, 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 25:4-12, 2 Kings 25:25, 2 Kings 25:26, Jeremiah 52:13, Ezekiel 5:4, Matthew 22:7, Matthew 24:2, Romans 11:7-11, Revelation 11:2

into an unclean place: Leviticus 14:41

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:33 - ye shall break it Leviticus 13:52 - fretting leprosy

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall break down the house,.... Order it to be pulled down, and demolished entirely, that is, the priest shall give such orders; but Gersom thinks this was to be done by the owner of the house, and that he was to do it himself, and have no associate with him in it:

the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and, according to the Jewish canons, a house was not defiled with the plague of leprosy, unless it had in it stones, and timber, and dust, or earth; a house which had not stones, timber, and dust in it, and the plague appeared in it, even if anyone after that brought in stones; timber, and dust, it was clean p:

and he shall carry [them] forth out of the city unto an unclean place: such materials were not to be made use of to rebuild that house, or to be employed in the building of any other. This house may be an emblem of a visible church of God on earth, which is often in Scripture compared to an house, as that signifies both an edifice and a family, and is sometimes called the house of the living God; and into which sometimes the leprosy of immorality and profaneness gets and spreads, or of errors and heresies, which creep in unawares, spread themselves gradually, and sometimes very fast, and eat as do a canker, and are very troublesome and defiling; and which God permits to enter in, that they which are approved might be made manifest: now when this is the case, or there is any appearance of it, the priests, the ministers of the Lord, are to be told of it, who are to examine into it, and rebuke sharply, as the case requires; and care is to be taken that the infection spread not; the tainted stones, immoral or heretical persons, are to be removed from the communion of the church, and others to be put in their room, as may present; such as are dug out of the common quarry of nature, and separated from the rest of the world, and are hewn and squared by the Spirit and grace of God, and are become lively stones; such are to be added to the church for the support and increase of it. Sharp reproofs are to be given to those who are incorrigible, which may be signified by the scraping of the house; and forgiveness, tenderness, and love, that covers a multitude of sins, are to be shown to those who truly repent, of which plastering may be an emblem; but if, after all, the above disorders in principle and practice spread, and they appear to be incurable, then the house is pulled down, the church-state or candlestick is removed out of its place. And this may be illustrated in two instances, first in the Jewish church, which is sometimes called the house of Israel, and in which great corruptions prevailed, especially in the times of Christ and his apostles; and all means of reformation then being ineffectual, it was utterly destroyed, their ecclesiastical state, and all the ordinances of it; the temple, the house of God, was demolished, and not one stone left upon another,

Matthew 24:2; and next in the church of Rome, once a church of God, a temple of his, where antichrist rose up and sat, and has by him been overspread with the leprosy of immorality, false doctrine, superstitious and idolatrous worship; and at times God has been emptying it, or removing his own people out of it, and will do so again before the utter destruction of it, which is hastening on; when it will be utterly demolished, as Babylon its emblem was, so that a stone of it shall not be taken, either for foundations or for a corner, Jeremiah 51:26. This also may be applied to the earthly houses of our tabernacles, in which the leprosy of sin is so deeply rooted, that, until they are dissolved, it will never be removed, notwithstanding all the means made use of for the mortification of the deeds of the body.

p Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This section is separated from that on leprosy in clothing Leviticus 13:47-59 with which it would seem to be naturally connected, and is placed last of all the laws concerning leprosy, probably on account of its being wholly prospective. While the Israelites were in the wilderness, the materials of their dwellings were of nearly the same nature as those of their clothing, and would be liable to the same sort of decay. They were therefore included under the same law.

I put the plague - Yahweh here speaks as the Lord of all created things, determining their decay and destruction as well as their production. Compare Isaiah 45:6-7; Jonah 4:7; Matthew 21:20.

Leviticus 14:37

Hollow strakes ... - Rather, depressed spots of dark green or dark red, appearing beneath (the surface of) the wall.

Leviticus 14:49

Cleanse the house - Strictly, “purge the house from sin.” The same word is used in Leviticus 14:52; and in Leviticus 14:53 it is said, “and make an atonement for it.” Such language is used figuratively when it is applied to things, not to persons. The leprosy in houses, the leprosy in clothing, and the terrible disease in the human body, were representative forms of decay which taught the lesson that all created things, in their own nature, are passing away, and are only maintained for their destined uses during an appointed period, by the power of Yahweh.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 14:45. He shall break down the house — "On the suspicion of a house being infected, the priest examined it, and ordered it to be shut up seven days; if he found the plague, or signs of the plague, (hollow streaks, greenish or reddish,) were not spread, he commanded it to be shut up seven days more. On the thirteenth day he revisited it; and if he found the infected place dim, or gone away, he took out that part of the wall, carried it out to an unclean place, mended the wall, and caused the whole house to be new plastered. It was then shut up a third seven days, and he came on the nineteenth, and if he found that the plague was broken out anew, he ordered the house to be pulled down." See Ainsworth. From all this may we not learn a lesson of instruction? If the means made use of by God and his ministers for the conversion of a sinner be, through his wilful obstinacy, rendered of no avail; if by his evil practices he trample under foot the blood of the covenant wherewith he might have been sanctified, and do despite to the Spirit of God; then God will pull down his house-dislodge his soul from its earthly tabernacle, consign the house, the body, to corruption, and the spirit to the perdition of ungodly men. Reader, see well how it stands with thy soul. God is not mocked: what a man soweth, that shall he reap.