Leviticus 14:45
And they shall destroy it forthwith, and shall cast the stones and timber thereof, and all the dust without the town into an unclean place.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quam statim destruent, et lapides ejus ac ligna, atque universum pulverem projicient extra oppidum in locum immundum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ καθελοῦσιν τὴν οἰκίαν, καὶ τὰ ξύλα αὐτῆς καὶ τοὺς λίθους αὐτῆς καὶ πάντα τὸν χοῦν ἐξοίσουσιν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως εἰς τόπον ἀκάθαρτον·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְנָתַ֣ץ אֶת הַבַּ֗יִת אֶת אֲבָנָיו֙ וְאֶת עֵצָ֔יו וְאֵ֖ת כָּל עֲפַ֣ר הַבָּ֑יִת וְהוֹצִיא֙ אֶל מִח֣וּץ לָעִ֔יר אֶל מָק֖וֹם טָמֵֽא
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. …