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

Other Translations of Leviticus 14:38

New International Version

38 the priest shall go out the doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.

English Standard Version

38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.

The Message

38 the priest is to walk out the door and shut the house up for seven days.

New King James Version

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

New Living Translation

38 the priest will step outside the door and put the house in quarantine for seven days.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 14:38

Commentary on Leviticus 14:33-53

(Read Leviticus 14:33-53)

The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the leprosy in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plague there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, and afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it remain in the house, the whole must be pulled down. The owner had better be without a dwelling, than live in one that was infected. The leprosy of sin ruins families and churches. Thus sin is so interwoven with the human body, that it must be taken down by death.