Leviticus 14:35
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New International Version (©2011)
the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, 'I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, 'It appears that my house has some kind of mildew.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'Something like a mark of leprosy has become visible to me in the house.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
the owner of the house is to come and tell the priest: Something like mildew contamination has appeared in my house.

International Standard Version (©2012)
then the owner of the house is to approach the priest and tell him, 'There appears to be a contagion in the house.'

NET Bible (©2006)
then whoever owns the house must come and declare to the priest, 'Something like an infection is visible to me in the house.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The owner of that house must come and tell the priest that there is something that looks like mildew in his house.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he that owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seems to me there is as it were a disease in the house:

American King James Version
And he that ownes the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seems to me there is as it were a plague in the house:

American Standard Version
then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He whose house it is, shall go and tell the priest, saying: It seemeth to me, that there is the plague of leprosy in my house,

Darby Bible Translation
then he whose house it is shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me like a plague in the house;

English Revised Version
then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house:

Webster's Bible Translation
And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, it seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:

World English Bible
then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.'

Young's Literal Translation
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;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 35-44. - The examination of the suspected house by the priest. First, the house is to be emptied of its furniture, lest the latter should contract a ceremonial uncleanness in case the house were found to be leprous, but not, it will be noted, lest it should convey contagion or infection. Then the priest is to examine the discolouration, and if it bear a suspicious appearance, the house is to be shut up for seven days. It at the end of that time the spot has spread, he is to have the part of the wall in which it shows itself taken down and carried away, and built up again with new stones and mortar and plaster, the parts adjoining to the infected place having been first well scraped. If this treatment does not succeed in getting rid of the mischief, the priest is to determine that it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he that owneth the house shall come, and tell the priest,.... As soon as he observes any sign of leprosy in it, or which gives him a suspicion of it:

saying, it seemeth unto me there is as it were a plague in the house; he must not say expressly there is one, how certain soever he may be of it, because the matter must be determined by a priest: so runs the Jewish canon (i), he whose the house is comes and declares to the priest, saying, there appears to me as a plague in the house; and though he is a wise man, and knows that there is a plague certainly, he may not determine, and say, there appears to me a plague in the house, but there appears to me as it were a plague in the house; it looks like one, there is some reason to suspect it.

(i) Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 5. Jarchi in loc.

Leviticus 14:35 Parallel Commentaries
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Signs of Home Contamination
33And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 34When you be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35And he that ownes the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seems to me there is as it were a plague in the house: …

Leviticus 14:36 The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.
Psalm 91:10 no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.
Zechariah 5:4 The LORD Almighty declares, 'I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.'"