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Leviticus 14:48-50
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Leviticus 14:48-50
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48 “If, however, the priest enters[a] and examines it, and the[b] infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed. 49 Then he[c] is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop[d] to purify[e] the house, 50 and he is to slaughter one bird into a clay vessel over fresh water.[f]
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- Leviticus 14:48 tn Heb “And if the priest entering [infinitive absolute] enters [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.
- Leviticus 14:48 tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “and the mark has not indeed spread.”
- Leviticus 14:49 tn The pronoun “he” refers to the priest mentioned in the previous verse.
- Leviticus 14:49 tn Regarding these ritual materials, see the note on v. 4 above.
- Leviticus 14:49 tn Regarding the Piel of חָטָא (khataʾ, cf. v. 52) meaning to “purify” or “decontaminate,” see the notes on Lev 8:15 and 9:15. sn In Lev 8:15, for example, the “sin offering” is used to “purify” the burnt offering altar. As argued above (see the note on v. 7 above), these ritual materials and the procedures performed with them do not constitute a “sin offering” (contrast vv. 19 and 31 above). In fact, no sin offering was required for the purification of a house.
- Leviticus 14:50 tn See the note on v. 5 above.
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