Leviticus 14:41
And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scraping be scattered without the city into an unclean place:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- domum autem ipsam radi intrinsecus per circuitum, et spargi pulverem rasuræ extra urbem in locum immundum,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀποξύσουσιν τὴν οἰκίαν ἔσωθεν κύκλῳ, καὶ ἐκχεοῦσιν τὸν χοῦν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως εἰς τόπον ἀκάθαρτον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאֶת הַבַּ֛יִת יַקְצִ֥עַ מִבַּ֖יִת סָבִ֑יב וְשָׁפְכ֗וּ אֶת הֶֽעָפָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִקְצ֔וּ אֶל מִח֣וּץ לָעִ֔יר אֶל מָק֖וֹם טָמֵֽא
Haydock's commentary
Scraped. Hebrew, "he shall scrape." But the Samaritan copy has more properly, "they shall scrape." (Houbigant)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On Modesty, Chapter XX
For excellently was he wont to interpret the law, and keep its figures even in (the dispensation of) the Truth itself. It was with a reference, in short, to this species of discipline that the caution was taken in the case of the leper: “But if the speckled appearance shall have become efflorescent over the skin, and shall have covered the whole skin from the head even unto the feet through all the visible surface, then the priest, when he shall have seen, shall utterly cleanse him: since he hath wholly turned into white he is clean. …