Leviticus 14:38

Easy-to-Read Version

he must go out of the house and lock the house 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.

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 Living Translation
the priest will step outside the door and put the house in quarantine for 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 The Lord also said to Moses and Aaron, ³⁴ "I am giving the land of Canaan to your people. Your people will enter that land. At that time I might cause mildew to grow in someone's house. ³⁵ The person who owns that house must come and tell the priest, ‘I see something like mildew in my house.' ³⁶ "Then the priest must order the people to take everything out of the house before he goes in to look at the mildew. Then the priest will not have to say everything in the house is unclean. After the people have taken everything out of the house, the priest will go in to look at the house. ³⁷ He will look at the mildew. If the mildew on the walls of the house has holes that are a green or red color, and if the mildew goes into the wall's surface, ³⁸ he must go out of the house and lock the house for seven days. ³⁹ "On the seventh day the priest must come back and check the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls of the house, ⁴⁰ 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. ⁴¹ Then the priest must have the entire house scraped inside. The people must throw away the plaster that was scraped off the walls. They must put that plaster at a special unclean place outside the city. ⁴² Then new stones must be put in the walls, and the walls must be covered with new plaster.

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.