And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.
This is the law concerning the leprosy in a house. Now that they were in the wilderness they dwelt in tents, and had no houses, and therefore the law is made only an appendix to the former laws concerning the leprosy, because it related, not to their present state, but to their future settlement.
Commenting on Leviticus 14:33-53
And he shall break down the house,.... Order it to be pulled down, and demolished entirely, that is, the priest shall give such orders; but Gersom thinks this was to be done by the owner of the house, and that he was to do it himself, and have no associate with him in it: the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the...
And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: (m) Where trash was cast, and other filth, that the people might not be infected by them.