"Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, {if} the plague be spread in the house, it {is} a fretting leprosy in …" — Leviticus 14:44

Leviticus 14:44 · KJV

“Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, {if} the plague be spread in the house, it {is} a fretting leprosy in the house: it {is} unclean.”

— Leviticus 14:44

Verse 43

And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;

Verse 45

And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry {them} forth out of the city into an unclean place.

Leviticus 14 — Context

And they shall take other stones, and put {them} in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.

And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;

Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, {if} the plague be spread in the house, it {is} a fretting leprosy in the house: it {is} unclean.

And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry {them} forth out of the city into an unclean place.

Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.

Cross References

Leviticus 13:51-52

And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, {or} in any work that is made of skin; the plague {is} a fretting leprosy; it {is} unclean.

Zechariah 5:4

I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.