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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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:
Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
And the priest shall command, and they shall pull out the stones that the infection on them, and they shall cast them to on the outside of the city, to an unclean place.
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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:
he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
he must order that the contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city:
then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city:
Then the Priest shall commande them to take away the stones wherein the plague is, and they shall cast them into a foule place without the citie.
He shall command, that the stones wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and cast without the city into an unclean place:
and the priest hath commanded, and they have drawn out the stones in which the plague `is', and have cast them unto the outside of the city, unto an unclean place;
and the priest has commanded, and they have drawn out the stones in which the plague [is], and have cast them to the outside of the city, to an unclean place;
If it has, then the priest will command that they take out the stones in which the mildew has been found and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.
And the priest shall command, and they shall pull out the stones that the infection on them, and they shall cast them to on the outside of the city, to an unclean place.
then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them out of the city, in an unclean place.
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.
Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
he will order the affected stones to be removed and disposed of in an unclean area outside the town.
Then the priest will give orders to them to take out the stones in which the disease is seen, and put them out into an unclean place outside the town:
then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city.
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First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְחִלְּצוּ֙ to arm H2502 occurs in 44 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 27 words from the Hebrew and 30 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 16 Hebrew tokens and 22 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְצִוָּה֙ הַכֹּהֵ֔ן וְחִלְּצוּ֙ אֶת הָ֣אֲבָנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּהֵ֖ן הַנָּ֑גַע וְהִשְׁלִ֤יכוּ אֶתְהֶן֙ אֶל מִח֣וּץ לָעִ֔יר אֶל מָק֖וֹם טָמֵֽא
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:
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί προςτάσσω ὁ ἱερεύς καί ἐκαἱρέω ὁ λίθος ἐν ὅς εἰμί ὁ ἁφή καί ἐκβάλλω αὐτός ἔξω ὁ πόλις εἰς τόπος ἀκάθαρτος
then the priest shall give orders, and they shall take away the stones in which the plague is, and shall cast them out of the city into an unclean place.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וִיפַקֵד כֲּהֲנָא וִישַׁלְפוּן יָת אַבְנַיָא דִי בְהוֹן מַכְתָּשָׁא וְיִרְמוּן יָתְהוֹן לְמִבָּרָא לְקַרְתָּא לַאַתַר מְסָאָב
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וִיפַקֵד כַּהֲנָא וְיִשְׁמְטוּן יַת אַבְנַיָא דִבְהוֹן מַכְתְּשָׁא וִיטַלְקוּן יַתְהוֹן לְמִבָּרָא לְקַרְתָּא לַאֲתַר מְסָאָב
then the priest shall direct that they break out the stones which have the plague in them, and throw them without the city into an unclean place.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 16 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châlats (“to arm”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 14:40 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.