Leviticus - 14:46



46 "Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 14:46.

Differing Translations

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He that entereth into the house when it is shut, shall be unclean until evening,
And he that goeth into the house as long as it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
'And he who is going in unto the house all the days he hath shut it up, is unclean till the evening;
And, in addition, anyone who goes into the house at any time, while it is shut up, will be unclean till evening.
Whoever enters into the house when it is closed up shall be unclean until evening.
Qui autem ingressus fuerit domum illam omnibus diebus quibus jusserit eam claudi, immundus erit usque ad vesperam.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Moreover, he that goeth into the house all the while it is shut up,.... The utmost of which were three weeks, as Jarchi observes; during the time a house was shut up, no man might enter it: if he did, he
shall be unclean until the evening; might not have any conversation with men until the evening was come, and he had washed himself; nay, according to the Misnah (q), if a clean person thrust in his head, or the greatest part of his body, into an unclean house, he was defiled; and whoever entered into a leprous house, and his clothes are on his shoulder, and his sandals (on his feet), and his rings on his hands, he and they are unclean immediately; and if he has his clothes on, and his sandals on his feet, and his rings on his hands, he is immediately defiled, and they are clean.
(q) Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 8, 9.

Whoever went into the house during the time that it was closed, became unclean till the evening and had to wash himself; but whoever slept or ate therein during this time, was to wash his clothes, and of course was unclean till the evening. אתו הסגּיר (Leviticus 14:46) may be a perfect tense, and a relative clause dependent upon ימי, or it may be an infinitive for הסגּיר as in Leviticus 14:43.

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