Leviticus 14:38

New Living Translation

the priest will step outside the door and put the house in quarantine for seven days.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
then the Kohen shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

King James Version
Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:

Lexham English Bible
then the priest shall go out from the house to the house's entrance, and he shall confine the house for seven days.

New Century Version
he must go out and close up the house for seven days.

New English Translation
then the priest is to go out of the house to the doorway of the house and quarantine the house for seven days.

Amplified Bible
the priest shall go out of the house, to the doorway, and quarantine the house for seven days.

New American Standard Bible
the priest shall come out of the house, to the doorway, and quarantine the house for seven days.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Priest shall goe out of the house to the doore of the house, and shall cause to shut vp the house seuen dayes.

Legacy Standard Bible
then the priest shall come out of the house, to the doorway, and put the house under isolation for seven days.

Contemporary English Version
he will have the house closed for seven days.

Complete Jewish Bible
he is to go out of the house to its door and seal up the house for seven days.

Darby Translation
then the priest shall go out of the house to the entrance of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

Easy-to-Read Version
he must go out of the house and lock the house for seven days.

English Standard Version
then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.

George Lamsa Translation
Then the priest shall go out of the house and stand at the door and observe the house seven days;

Good News Translation
he shall leave the house and lock it up for seven days.

Christian Standard Bible®
the priest is to go outside the house to its doorway and quarantine the house for seven days.

Literal Translation
then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then shall he go out at the dore of the house, and shut vp the house for seuen dayes.

American Standard Version
then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

Bible in Basic English
Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then the priest shall go out of ye house, to the doore of the house, and shut vp the house seuen dayes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

King James Version (1611)
Then the Priest shall goe out of the house, to the doore of the house, and shut vp the house seuen dayes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the priest shall come out of the house to the door of the house, and the priest shall separate the house seven days.

English Revised Version
then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:

Berean Standard Bible
the priest shall go outside the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
he schal go out at the dore of the hows, and anoon he schal close it bi seuene daies.

Young's Literal Translation
and the priest hath gone out of the house unto the opening of the house, and hath shut up the house seven days.

Update Bible Version
then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:

World English Bible
then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

New King James Version
then the priest shall go out of the house, to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

New Life Bible
the religious leader will go out the door and shut up the house for seven days.

New Revised Standard
the priest shall go outside to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shall the priest come forth out of the house, unto the entrance of the house, - and shall shut up the house seven days;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it up seven days,

Revised Standard Version
then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then the priest shall come out of the house, to the doorway, and quarantine the house for seven days.

Contextual Overview

³³ Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ³⁴ "When you arrive in Canaan, the land I am giving you as your own possession, I may contaminate some of the houses in your land with mildew. ³⁵ The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, ‘It appears that my house has some kind of mildew.' ³⁶ Before the priest goes in to inspect the house, he must have the house emptied so nothing inside will be pronounced ceremonially unclean. ³⁷ 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, ³⁸ the priest will step outside the door and put the house in quarantine for seven days. ³⁹ On the seventh day the priest must return for another inspection. If he finds that the mildew on the walls of the house has spread, ⁴⁰ 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. ⁴¹ Next the inside walls of the entire house must be scraped thoroughly and the scrapings dumped in the unclean place outside the town. ⁴² Other stones will be brought in to replace the ones that were removed, and the walls will be replastered.

Bible Verse Review
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Leviticus 13:50

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

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.