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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look,.... On the seventh day from his shutting of it up, he shall open it again, go into it, and observe in what condition it is: and, behold, [if] the plague be spread in the walls of the house: the hollow strakes are become deeper, or the coloured spots are become larger: spreading was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague [is],.... In there appeared any cavities, or the above colours, and these spreading: in order to put a stop thereunto, these stones were to be drawn or pulled out, as the word signifies, in such manner as not to endanger the fall of the house, and two stones at least...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about,.... All the walls on each side, and at each end, and every stone in them; which, though they had no appearance on them, yet should there be any infection in them, which as yet was not seen, it might be removed, and a spread prevented: and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they shall take other stones,.... From elsewhere, such as are sound and whole: and put [them] in the place of these stones; such as will exactly answer them, as to number and size, and so fill up the space vacant by the removal of the other, and support the building: and he shall take other mortar, and plaster the house; the master of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if the plague come again, and break out in the house,.... In the above signs of it: after that he hath taken away the stones; which were infected, or ordered them to be taken away: and after he hath scraped the house; so that there seemed to be no remains of the plague: and after it is plastered; to prevent if possible any return of it, but in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall break down the house,.... Order it to be pulled down, and demolished entirely, that is, the priest shall give such orders; but Gersom thinks this was to be done by the owner of the house, and that he was to do it himself, and have no associate with him in it: the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes,.... Which is more than bare entrance into it, and might be supposed the more to be infected by it, and therefore obliged to the washing of himself, and his garments: and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes; if he stayed no longer than while he ate half a piece of wheaten bread...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if the priest shall come in, and look [upon it],.... That is, on the seventh day of the second week of its being shut up: and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; [See comments on Leviticus 14:42]: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean; fit to be inhabited, and so no more to be shut up, but...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall take to cleanse the house,.... The priest, or by his fellow priest, as Aben Ezra, though some interpret it of the master of the house; in Leviticus 14:49, an account is given of the manner of cleansing a leprous house, which is the same with that of cleansing a leprous man, see notes on Leviticus 14:4-7, Two birds. The birds here...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. [See comments on Leviticus 14:5].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird,.... [See comments on Leviticus 14:6]. and sprinkle the house seven times. [See comments on Leviticus 14:7].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird,.... [See comments on Leviticus 14:4].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields,.... [See comments on Leviticus 14:7].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall. The leprosy in general in the bodies of men, and of that in particular which was on the head and beard, and went by the name of the scall, Leviticus 13:29. In Leviticus 14:54 is a recapitulation of the several laws and rules relating to leprosy of all kinds, delivered in this and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And for the leprosy of a garment,.... Of which see Leviticus 13:47; and of an house; largely treated of in this chapter, Leviticus 14:34.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot. Which were three sorts of leprosy in the skin of man's flesh; [See comments on Leviticus 13:2].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
To teach when [it is] unclean, and when it is clean,.... A man, his garment, or his house; for it respects them all, as Aben Ezra observes; which was the business of the priests to teach men, and they by the above laws and rules were instructed how to judge of cases, and by which they were capable of pronouncing persons or things clean or unclean:...