Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Leviticus 14:48 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 48. 48And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
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Quick Meaning
This verse permits a clean declaration when the replastered house remains free of spread.
Read It With
- Leviticus 14:48-57
Use 14:48-57 as the reading frame for Leviticus 14:48. The verse permits a clean declaration when the replastered house remains free of spread, while the complete unit shows that A house with no returning condition receives the bird ritual, and the section closes by naming skin, hair, garments, and houses as cases priests teach people to distinguish.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Placed here, the verse permits a clean declaration when the replastered house remains free of spread; Leviticus 14:48-57 supplies the actors, category, and outcome needed to interpret it.
What Remains True
Permits a clean declaration when the replastered house remains free of spread. Within Leviticus 14:48-57, this contributes to the larger claim that a house with no returning condition receives the bird ritual, and the section closes by naming skin, hair, garments, and houses as cases priests teach people to distinguish.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 14:48, keep the verse inside Leviticus 14:48-57. Hold this boundary: Ritual declaration controls status, but it does not give clergy medical authority today. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 14:48-57 — A cleared house receives purification and the laws are summarizedSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 14:48-57, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 14:48-57
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 14:48-57
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