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Leviticus 14:47 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. "
Leviticus 14:47
Verse in Context
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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.
And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
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Leviticus 14:1
"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,"
Leviticus 14:2
"This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:"
Leviticus 14:3
"And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;"
Leviticus 14:4
"Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:"
Leviticus 14:5
"And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:"
Leviticus 14:6
"As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and 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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