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Leviticus 14:40 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city. "
Leviticus 14:40
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38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
39 The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city.
41 He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place.
42 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
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Leviticus 14:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"
Leviticus 14:2
"“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest,"
Leviticus 14:3
"and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,"
Leviticus 14:4
"then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop."
Leviticus 14:5
"The priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water."
Leviticus 14:6
"As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood, the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water."
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