Leviticus 14:37

Christian Standard Bible ®

He will examine it, and if the contamination in the walls of the house consists of green or red indentations that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He shall examine the plague; and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;

King James Version
And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;

Lexham English Bible
And he shall examine the infection, and if the infection on the house's wall has yellowish-green or reddish spots and its appearance is deeper than the surface of the wall,

New Century Version
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,

New English Translation
He is to examine the infection, and if the infection in the walls of the house consists of yellowish green or reddish eruptions, and it appears to be deeper than the surface of the wall,

Amplified Bible
"He shall examine the mark, and if the mark on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the surface,

New American Standard Bible
"So he shall look at the spot, and if the spot on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the surface,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee shall marke the plague: and if the plague be in the walles of the house, & that there be deepe spots, greenish or reddish, which seeme to be lower then the wall,

Legacy Standard Bible
So he shall look at the mark, and if the mark on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the surface of the wall,

Contemporary English Version
If the priest discovers greenish or reddish spots that go deeper than the surface of the walls,

Complete Jewish Bible
He will examine the infection; and if he sees that the infection is in the walls of the house, with greenish or reddish depressions that seem to go in deeper than the surface of the wall,

Darby Translation
And when he looketh on the plague, and behold, the plague is in the walls of the house, greenish or reddish hollows, and their look is deeper than the surface of the wall,

Easy-to-Read Version
He will look at the mildew. If the mildew on the walls of the house has holes that are a green or red color, and if the mildew goes into the wall's surface,

English Standard Version
And he shall examine the disease. And if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface,

George Lamsa Translation
And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish scales, and appear to be deeper than the wall;

Good News Translation
and examine the mildew. If there are greenish or reddish spots that appear to be eating into the wall,

Literal Translation
And he shall look upon the plague; and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with depressions greenish or reddish, and the appearance of it is lower than the wall;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now whan he loketh, and fyndeth, yt there be holowe strakes yalowe or reedish in the walles of the house, & they seme to be lower then the wall besyde,

American Standard Version
and he shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall;

Bible in Basic English
And if he sees that the walls of the house are marked with hollows of green and red, and if it seems to go deeper than the face of the wall;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
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:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall;

King James Version (1611)
And he shal looke on the plague: and behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house, with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower then the wall;

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house, he will see greenish or reddish cavities, and the appearance of them will be beneath the surface of the walls.

English Revised Version
and he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall;

Berean Standard Bible
He is to examine the house, and if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he seeth in the wallis therof as litle valeis `foule bi palenesse, ethir bi reednesse, and lowere than the tother hiyere part,

Young's Literal Translation
and he hath seen the plague, and lo, the plague [is] in the walls of the house, hollow strakes, very green or very red, and their appearance [is] lower than the wall,

Update Bible Version
and he shall look at the plague; and see if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof is lower than the wall;

Webster's Bible Translation
And he shall look on the plague, and behold, [if] the plague [is] in the walls of the house, with hollow streaks, greenish, or reddish, which in sight [are] lower than the wall;

World English Bible
He shall examine the plague; and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;

New King James Version
And he shall examine the plague; and indeed if the plague is on the walls of the house with ingrained streaks, greenish or reddish, which appear to be deep in the wall,

New Living Translation
Then the priest will go in and examine the mildew on the walls. If he finds greenish or reddish streaks and the contamination appears to go deeper than the wall's surface,

New Life Bible
He will look at the mark of the disease. If the mark is in the walls of the house with green or red spots deep in the walls,

New Revised Standard
He shall examine the disease; if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shall he view the mark and lo! if the mark is in the walls of the house, with sunken places greenish yellow or reddish, - and they appear to be lower than the surface of the wall,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if he see in the walls thereof as it were little dints, disfigured with paleness or redness, and lower than all he rest:

Revised Standard Version
And he shall examine the disease; and if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So he shall look at the mark, and if the mark on the walls of the house has greenish or reddish depressions and appears deeper than the surface,

Contextual Overview

³³The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron: ³⁴“When you enter the land of Canaan that I am giving you as a possession, and I place a mildew contamination in a house in the land you possess, ³⁵the owner of the house is to come and tell the priest: Something like mildew contamination has appeared in my house. ³⁶The priest must order them to clear the house before he enters to examine the contamination, so that nothing in the house becomes unclean. Afterward the priest will come to examine the house. ³⁷He will examine it, and if the contamination in the walls of the house consists of green or red indentations that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall, ³⁸the priest is to go outside the house to its doorway and quarantine the house for seven days. ³⁹The priest is to return on the seventh day and examine it. If the contamination has spread on the walls of the house, ⁴⁰the priest must order that the stones with the contamination be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city. ⁴¹He is to have the inside of the house completely scraped, and have the plaster that is scraped off dumped in an unclean place outside the city. ⁴²Then they are to take different stones to replace the former ones and take additional plaster to replaster the house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 13:3, Leviticus 13:19, Leviticus 13:20, Leviticus 13:42, Leviticus 13:49

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall look on the plague,.... That which is taken or suspected to be one, being pointed unto by the owner of the house:

and, behold, [if] the plague [be] in the walls of the house; for there it chiefly was, if not solely; and from hence Gersom infers that it must be a walled house, and that it must have four walls, neither more nor fewer; and with this agrees the Misnah l, according to which it must be four square; the signs of which were, when it appeared,

with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight [are] lower than the wall: these signs agree with the other signs before given of leprosy in men and garments; the first, the hollow strakes, which are explained by being lower in appearance than the wall, a sort of corrosion or eating into it, which made cavities in it, answer to the plague being deeper than the skin of the flesh in men; and the colours greenish or reddish, or exceeding green or red, as Gersom, are the same with those of the leprosy in clothes; and some such like appearances are in saltpetre walls, or in walls eaten by saline and nitrous particles; and also by sulphureous, oily, and arsenical ones, as Scheuchzer observes m, and are not only tending to ruin, but unhealthful, as if they had rather been eaten by a canker or spreading ulcer; who also speaks of a fossil, called in the German language "steingalla", that is, the gall of stones, by which they are easily eaten into, because of the vitriolic salt of the fire stone, which for the most part goes along with that mineral, which is dissolved by the moist air. Though this leprosy, in the walls of a house, seems not to have risen from any natural causes, but was from the immediate hand of God; and there have been strange diseases, which have produced uncommon effects on houses, and other things: in the times of Narses is said to be a great plague, especially in the province of Liguria, and on a sudden appeared certain marks and prints on houses, doors, vessels, and clothes, which, if they attempted to wash off, appeared more and more n.

l Misn. Nagaim, c. 12. sect. 1, 2. m Physica Sacra, vol. 3. p. 330, 331. n Warnefrid de Gest. Longobard. l. 2. apud Scheuchzer. ib.

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.