then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Leviticus 14:40 in context
Leviticus 14:37–43
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He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall,
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then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
39
The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
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then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city.
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He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place.
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They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
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“If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered,
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