the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Louis Segond
Lévitique 14:44
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Le sacrificateur reviendra. S'il voit que la plaie s'est tendue dans la maison, c'est une lpre rongeante dans la maison; elle est souille.
le sacrificateur entrera et regardera: et voici, la plaie s'est tendue dans la maison, -c'est une lpre rongeante dans la maison: elle est impure.
Le Sacrificateur y entrera, et la regardera, et s'il aperoit que la plaie soit accrue en la maison, c'est une lpre rongeante en la maison; elle est souille.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
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,
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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.
