Leviticus 14:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:

Leviticus 14:38 —

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Leviticus 13:50
And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 33-53)

This is the law concerning the leprosy in a house. Now that they were in the wilderness they dwelt in tents, and had no houses, and therefore the law is made only an appendix to the former laws concerning the leprosy, because it related, not to their present state, but to their future settlement. The leprosy in a house is as unaccountable as the leprosy in a garment; but, if we see not what natura…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 38)

34-48. leprosy in a house--This law was prospective, not to come into operation till the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan. The words, “I put the leprosy,” has led many to think that this plague was a judicial infliction from heaven for the sins of the owner; while others do not regard it in this light, it being common in Scripture to represent God as doing that which He only permits in His p…