Leviticus 14:44

Legacy Standard Bible

then the priest shall come in and look again. If he sees that the mark has indeed spread in the house, it is a leprous malignancy in the house; it is unclean.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
then the Kohen shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.

King James Version
Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

Lexham English Bible
then the priest shall come, and he shall examine the infection, and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house—it is unclean.

New Century Version
the priest must come back and check the house again. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a mildew that destroys things; the house is unclean.

New English Translation
the priest is to come and examine it, and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a malignant disease in the house. It is unclean.

Amplified Bible
then the priest shall come and look again, and if the mark has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is [ceremonially] unclean.

New American Standard Bible
then the priest shall come in and make an inspection. If he sees that the spot has indeed spread in the house, it is a malignant spot in the house; it is unclean.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Priest shall come and see: and if the plague growe in the house, it is a freating leprosie in the house: it is therefore vncleane.

Contemporary English Version
the priest will come and say, "This house is unclean. It's covered with mildew that can't be removed."

Complete Jewish Bible
then the cohen is to enter and examine it. If he sees that the infection has spread in the house, it is a contagious tzara‘at in the house; it is unclean.

Darby Translation
then the priest shall come, and when he looketh, and behold, the plague hath spread in the house, it is a corroding leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the priest must come in and check the house. If the infection has spread in the house, it is a disease that spreads quickly to other places. So the house is unclean.

English Standard Version
then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean.

George Lamsa Translation
Then the priest shall go in and look, and if the plague has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

Good News Translation
the priest shall go and look. If it has spread, the house is unclean.

Christian Standard Bible®
the priest is to come and examine it. If the contamination has spread in the house, it is harmful mildew; the house is unclean.

Literal Translation
then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a corroding leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the shal the prest go in: and whan he seyth that the plage hath fretten farther in the house, then is there surely a fretinge leprosy in the house, and it is vncleane:

American Standard Version
then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

Bible in Basic English
Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then the priest shall come and see it: & yf that the plague hath growen further in the house, it is a frettyng leprosie in the house, it is therfore vncleane.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

King James Version (1611)
Then the Priest shall come and looke, and behold, if the plague bee spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosie in the house: it is vncleane.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then the priest shall go in and see if the plague is spread in the house: it is a confirmed leprosy in the house, it is unclean.

English Revised Version
then the priest shall come in and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

Berean Standard Bible
the priest must come and inspect it. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and othere erthe is daubid, the preest entrith, and seeth the lepre turned ayen, and the wallis spreynt with spottis, the lepre is stidfastly dwellynge, and the hows is vnclene;

Young's Literal Translation
then hath the priest come in and seen, and lo, the plague hath spread in the house; it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house; it [is] unclean.

Update Bible Version
then the priest shall come in and look; and see if the plague has spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the priest shall come and look; and behold, [if] the plague is spread in the house, it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house: it [is] unclean.

World English Bible
then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.

New King James Version
then the priest shall come and look; and indeed if the plague has spread in the house, it is an active leprosy in the house. It is unclean.

New Living Translation
the priest must return and inspect the house again. If he finds that the mildew has spread, the walls are clearly contaminated with a serious mildew, and the house is defiled.

New Life Bible
then the religious leader will come and look. If the disease has spread in the house, it is a very bad disease in the house. It is unclean.

New Revised Standard
the priest shall go and make inspection; if the disease has spread in the house, it is a spreading leprous disease in the house; it is unclean.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shall the priest come in, and take a view, and lo! if the mark hath spread in the house, a fretting leprosy, it is in the house unclean, it is,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The priest going in perceive that the leprosy is returned, and the walls full of spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the house is unclean.

Revised Standard Version
then the priest shall go and look; and if the disease has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then the priest shall come in and make an inspection. If he sees that the mark has indeed spread in the house, it is a malignant mark in the house; it is unclean.

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
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Leviticus 13:51, Leviticus 13:52, Zechariah 5:4

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the priest shall come and look,.... On the seventh day of the second week; though, according to Maimonides o, this was at the end of the third seven day, or on the nineteenth day from his first inspection into it; the seventh day being reckoned for the last of the first week, and the first of the second, and so on:

and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the house; after all the above precaution is taken;

it [is] a fretting leprosy in the house; like that in the garment,

:-:

it [is] unclean; and so not to be inhabited.

o Hilchot Tumaat Tzarat, c. 15. sect. 1, 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.