Leviticus 14:39
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And returning on the seventh day, he shall look upon it. If he find that the leprosy is spread,

Leviticus 13:7,8,22,27,36,51 But, if the leprosy grow again, after he was seen by the priest and restored to cleanness, he shall be brought to him: . . .

1. Moses ordained that the owner of a house, when any suspicious spots appeared on the walls, should be bound to give notice of it, in order that the house might be inspected; and that person, as in the case of the human leprosy, was to be the priest, whose duty it was. Now this would serve to check the mischief at its very origin, and make every one attentive to observe it.

2. On notice being given, the priest was to inspect the house, but the occupant had liberty to remove everything previously out of it; and that this might be done, the priest was empowered to order it {ex officio}; for whatever was found within a house declared unclean, became unclean along with it.

3. If, on the first inspection, the complaint did not appear wholly without foundation, but suspicious spots or dimples were actually to be seen, the house was to be shut up for seven days and then to be inspected anew. If, in this interval, the evil {did not} spread, it was considered as have been a circumstance merely accidental, and the house was not polluted; but if it {had} spread, it was not considered a harmless accident, but the real house leprosy; and the stones affected with it were to be broken out of the wall, and carried to an unclean place without the city, and the walls of the whole house here scraped and plastered anew.

4. If, after this, the leprosy broke out afresh, the {whole} house was to be pulled down, and the materials carried without the city. Moses therefore, never suffered a leprous house to stand.

5. If, on the other hand, the house being inspected a second time, was found clean, it was solemnly so declared, and offering made on the occasion; in order that every one might know for certain that it was not infected, and the public be freed from all fears on that score. By this law many evils were actually prevented--it would check the mischief in its very origin, and make every one attentive to observe it: the people would also guard against those impurities when it arose, and thus the healthy be preserved and not suffer in an infected house. These Mosaic statues were intended to prevent infection by the sacred obligations of religion. Ceremonial laws many keep more conscientiously and sacredly than moral precepts.

Context
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38He shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it up seven days, 39And returning on the seventh day, he shall look upon it. If he find that the leprosy is spread,40He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:…
Cross References
Leviticus 14:38
He shall go out of the door of the house, and forthwith shut it up seven days,

Leviticus 14:40
He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:

Lexicon
On the seventh
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֑י (haš·šə·ḇî·‘î)
Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7637: Seventh (an ordinal number)

day
בַּיּ֣וֹם (bay·yō·wm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

the priest
הַכֹּהֵ֖ן (hak·kō·hên)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3548: Priest

is to return
וְשָׁ֥ב (wə·šāḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

and inspect [the house].
וְרָאָ֕ה (wə·rā·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

If
וְהִנֵּ֛ה (wə·hin·nêh)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 2009: Lo! behold!

the mildew
הַנֶּ֖גַע (han·ne·ḡa‘)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5061: Mark -- a blow, a spot

has spread
פָּשָׂ֥ה (pā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6581: To spread

on the walls,
בְּקִירֹ֥ת (bə·qî·rōṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 7023: A wall


Additional Translations
On the seventh day the priest is to return and inspect the house. If the mildew has spread on the walls,And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

And the priest shall return on the seventh day and view the house; and, behold, if the plague is spread in the walls of the house,

And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and when he looketh, and behold, the plague hath spread in the walls of the house,

and the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;

And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and behold, if the plague is spread in the walls of the house;

The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,

'And the priest hath turned back on the seventh day, and hath seen, and lo, the plague hath spread in the walls of the house,
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