Discovery BoxLeviticus 14:41 
Context14:41 Then he is to have the house scraped 1 all around on the inside, 2 and the plaster 3 which is scraped off 4 must be dumped outside the city 5 into an unclean place.
Leviticus 14:45
Context14:45 He must tear down the house, 6 its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it 7 outside the city to an unclean place.
1 tn Or, according to the plurality of the verb in Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Targums, “Then the house shall be scraped” (cf. NAB, NLT, and the note on v. 40).
2 tn Heb “from house all around.”
3 tn Heb “dust” (so KJV) or “rubble”; NIV “the material”; NLT “the scrapings.”
4 tn Heb “which they have scraped off.” The MT term קִיר (qir, “wall” from קָצָה, qatsah, “to cut off”; BDB 892), the original Greek does not have this clause, Smr has הקיצו (with uncertain meaning), and the BHS editors and HALOT 1123-24 s.v. I קצע hif.a suggest emending the verb to הִקְצִעוּ (hiqtsi’u, see the same verb at the beginning of this verse; cf. some Greek
5 tn Heb “into from outside to the city.”
6 tn Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Tg. Ps.-J. have the plural verb, perhaps suggesting a passive translation, “The house…shall be torn down” (cf. NAB, NIV, TEV, NLT, and see the note on v. 4b above).
7 tn Once again, Smr, LXX, and Syriac have the plural verb, perhaps to be rendered passive, “shall be brought.”
