Leviticus 14:46

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Qui intraverit domum quando clausa est, immundus erit usque ad vesperum:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Qui intraverit domum quando clausa est, immundus erit usque ad vesperum :

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Qui intraverit domum, quando clausa est, immundus erit usque ad vesperum;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall be unclean: Leviticus 11:24, Leviticus 11:25, Leviticus 11:28, Leviticus 15:5-8, Leviticus 15:10, Leviticus 17:15, Leviticus 22:6, Numbers 19:7-10, Numbers 19:21, Numbers 19:22

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, he that goeth into the house all the while it is shut up,.... The utmost of which were three weeks, as Jarchi observes; during the time a house was shut up, no man might enter it: if he did, he

shall be unclean until the evening; might not have any conversation with men until the evening was come, and he had washed himself; nay, according to the Misnah q, if a clean person thrust in his head, or the greatest part of his body, into an unclean house, he was defiled; and whoever entered into a leprous house, and his clothes are on his shoulder, and his sandals (on his feet), and his rings on his hands, he and they are unclean immediately; and if he has his clothes on, and his sandals on his feet, and his rings on his hands, he is immediately defiled, and they are clean.

q Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 8, 9.

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.