Leviticus 14:40

Legacy Standard Bible

then the priest shall command them to tear out the stones with the mark in them and throw them away at an unclean place outside the city.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
then the Kohen shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:

King James Version
Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:

Lexham English Bible
the priest shall issue a command and they shall remove the stones on which is the infection, and they shall throw them outside the city on an unclean place.

New Century Version
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.

New English Translation
then the priest is to command that the stones that had the infection in them be pulled and thrown outside the city into an unclean place.

Amplified Bible
he shall order them to tear out the contaminated stones and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.

New American Standard Bible
the priest shall order them to pull out the stones with the spot on them and throw them away at an unclean place outside the city.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Priest shall commande them to take away the stones wherein the plague is, and they shall cast them into a foule place without the citie.

Contemporary English Version
If so, he will have someone scrape the plaster from the walls, remove the filthy stones, then haul everything off and dump it in an unclean place outside the town.

Complete Jewish Bible
he is to order them to remove the infected stones and throw them into some unclean place outside the city.

Darby Translation
then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them out of the city, in an unclean place.

Easy-to-Read Version
then he must order the people to tear out the stones with the mildew on them and throw them away. They must put these stones at a special unclean place outside the city.

English Standard Version
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.

George Lamsa Translation
Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague of leprosy is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city;

Good News Translation
he shall order that the stones on which the mildew is found be removed and thrown into some unclean place outside the city.

Christian Standard Bible®
the priest must order that the stones with the contamination be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

Literal Translation
then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is , and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the shall he commaunde to breake out the stones wherin the plage is, & to cast the in a foule place without the cite,

American Standard Version
then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city:

Bible in Basic English
Then the priest will give orders to them to take out the stones in which the disease is seen, and put them out into an unclean place outside the town:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
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,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city.

King James Version (1611)
Then the Priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an vncleane place without the Citie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then the priest shall give orders, and they shall take away the stones in which the plague is, and shall cast them out of the city into an unclean place.

English Revised Version
then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city:

Berean Standard Bible
he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
he schal comaunde that the stoonys be cast out, in whyche the lepre is, and that tho stonys be cast out of the citee in an vncleene place.

Young's Literal Translation
and the priest hath commanded, and they have drawn out the stones in which the plague [is], and have cast them unto the outside of the city, unto an unclean place;

Update Bible Version
then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place outside the city:

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague [is], and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:

World English Bible
then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:

New King James Version
then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which is the plague, and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city.

New Living Translation
the priest must order that the stones from those areas be removed. The contaminated material will then be taken outside the town to an area designated as ceremonially unclean.

New Life Bible
the religious leader will tell them to tear out the stones with the disease in them and throw them away outside the city at an unclean place.

New Revised Standard
the priest shall command that the stones in which the disease appears be taken out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shall the priest give command, and they shall pull out the stones, wherein is the mark, - and cast them forth outside the city, into an unclean place;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:

Revised Standard Version
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;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then the priest shall order them to tear out the stones with the mark in them and throw them away at an unclean place outside the city.

Contextual Overview

³³Yahweh further spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying: ³⁴"When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you for a possession, and I put a mark of leprosy on a house in the land of your possession, ³⁵then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like a mark of leprosy has become visible to me in the house.' ³⁶The priest shall then command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the mark, so that everything in the house need not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house. ³⁷So 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, ³⁸then the priest shall come out of the house, to the doorway, and put the house under isolation for seven days. ³⁹And the priest shall return on the seventh day and look again. If the mark has indeed spread in the walls of the house, ⁴⁰then the priest shall command them to tear out the stones with the mark in them and throw them away at an unclean place outside the city. ⁴¹And he shall have the house scraped all around inside, and they shall pour out the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city. ⁴²Then they shall take other stones and replace those stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

take away: Psalms 101:5, Psalms 101:7, Psalms 101:8, Proverbs 22:10, Proverbs 25:4, Proverbs 25:5, Isaiah 1:25, Isaiah 1:26, Matthew 18:17, John 15:2, 1 Corinthians 5:5, 1 Corinthians 5:6, 1 Corinthians 5:13, Titus 3:10, 2 John 1:10, 2 John 1:11, Revelation 2:2, Revelation 2:6, Revelation 2:14-16, Revelation 2:20

without the city: Revelation 22:15

Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:11 - without

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

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.