SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:34
Cuando hubieres entrado en la tierra de Canaán, la cual yo os doy en posesión, y pusiere yo plaga de lepra en alguna casa de la tierra de vuestra posesión,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 14:34
Verse 34. When ye be come into the land-and I put the plague of leprosy] It was probably from this text that the leprosy has been generally considered to be a disease inflicted immediately by God himself; but it is well known that in Scripture God is frequently represented as doing what, in the course of his providence, he only permits or suffers to be done. It is supposed that the infection of the house, as well as of the person and the garments, proceeded from animalcula. See note on "chap. xiii. 47", and "chap. xiii. 52".
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 34. When ye be come into the land of Canaan , etc.] Which as yet they were not come to, being in the wilderness, and so the following law concerning the leprosy in houses could not yet take place, they now dwelling in tents, and not in houses: which I give to you for a possession ; the Lord had given it to Abraham, and his seed, long ago, to be their inheritance, and now he was about to put them into the possession of it, which they were to hold as their own under God, their sovereign Lord and King: and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession ; by which it appears that this kind of leprosy was from the immediate hand of God, and was supernatural and miraculous, as the Jewish writers affirm f507 ; nor is there anything in common, or at least in our parts of the world, that is answerable unto it; and from hence the same writers conclude, that houses of Gentiles are exempt from it, only the houses of the Israelites in the land of Canaan had it; and they likewise except Jerusalem, and say f509 , that was not defiled with the plague of leprosy, as it is written, “and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession”; for Jerusalem was not divided among the tribes; and they suppose, whenever it was put into any house, it was on account of some sin or sins committed by the owner; and so the Targum of Jonathan, and there be found a man that builds his house with rapine and violence, then I will put the plague, etc. thought they commonly ascribe it to evil speaking, which they gather from the case of Miriam.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 33-53 - The leprosy in a house is unaccountable to us, as well as the lepros in a garment; but now sin, where that reigns in a house, is a plagu there, as it is in a heart. Masters of families should be aware, an afraid of the first appearance of sin in their families, and put it away, whatever it is. If the leprosy is got into the house, the infected part must be taken out. If it remain in the house, the whol must be pulled down. The owner had better be without a dwelling, tha live in one that was infected. The leprosy of sin ruins families an churches. Thus sin is so interwoven with the human body, that it mus be taken down by death.
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 תבאו 935 אל 413 ארץ 776 כנען 3667 אשׁר 834 אני 589 נתן 5414 לכם לאחזה 272 ונתתי 5414 נגע 5061 צרעת 6883 בבית 1004 ארץ 776 אחזתכם׃ 272
