34 'When ye come in unto the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you for a possession, and I have put a plague of leprosy in a house 'in' the land of your possession; 35 then hath he whose the house 'is' come in and declared to the priest, saying, As a plague hath appeared to me in the house; 36 and the priest hath commanded, and they have prepared the house before the priest cometh in to see the plague (that all which 'is' in the house be not unclean), and afterwards doth the priest come in to see the house; 37 and he hath seen the plague, and lo, the plague 'is' in the walls of the house, hollow strakes, very green or very red, and their appearance 'is' lower than the wall, 38 and the priest hath gone out of the house unto the opening of the house, and hath shut up the house seven days. 39 'And the priest hath turned back on the seventh day, and hath seen, and lo, the plague hath spread in the walls of the house, 40 and the priest hath commanded, and they have drawn out the stones in which the plague 'is', and have cast them unto the outside of the city, unto an unclean place; 41 and the house he doth cause to be scraped within round about, and they have poured out the clay which they have scraped off, at the outside of the city, at an unclean place; 42 and they have taken other stones, and brought 'them' in unto the place of the stones, and other clay he taketh and hath daubed the house. 43 'And if the plague return, and hath broken out in the house, after he hath drawn out the stones, and after the scraping of the house, and after the daubing; 44 then hath the priest come in and seen, and lo, the plague hath spread in the house; it 'is' a fretting leprosy in the house; it 'is' unclean. 45 'And he hath broken down the house, its stones, and its wood, and all the clay of the house, and he hath brought 'them' forth unto the outside of the city, unto an unclean place.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 14:34-45
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.