Imamat 14:36

14:36 Then the priest will command that the house be cleared ¹  before the priest enters to examine the infection ²  so that everything in the house ³  does not become unclean, ⁴  and afterward ⁵  the priest will enter to examine the house.

Imamat 17:15

Regulations for Eating Carcasses

17:15 “‘Any person ⁶  who eats an animal that has died of natural causes ⁷  or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a foreigner, ⁸  must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

[14:36]  ¹ tn Heb “And the priest shall command and they shall clear the house.” The second verb (“and they shall clear”) states the thrust of the priest’s command, which suggests the translation “that they clear” (cf. also vv. 4a and 5a above), and for the impersonal passive rendering of the active verb (“that the house be cleared”) see the note on v. 4 above.

[14:36]  ² tn Heb “to see the infection”; KJV “to see the plague”; NASB “to look at the mark (mildew NCV).”

[14:36]  ³ tn Heb “all which [is] in the house.”

[14:36]  ⁴ sn Once the priest pronounced the house “unclean” everything in it was also officially unclean. Therefore, if they emptied the house of its furniture, etc. before the official pronouncement by the priest those possessions would thereby remain officially “clean” and avoid destruction or purification procedures.

[14:36]  ⁵ tn Heb “and after thus.”

[17:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “And any soul” (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh).

[17:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “carcass,” referring to the carcass of an animal that has died on its own, not the carcass of an animal slaughtered for sacrifice or killed by wild beasts. This has been clarified in the translation by supplying the phrase “of natural causes”; cf. NAB “that died of itself”; TEV “that has died a natural death.”

[17:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the native or in the sojourner.”