When ye be come, &c. Here we have the first of four prospective laws, having no immediate hearing. See Leviticus 19:23; Leviticus 23:10; Leviticus 25:2. Hence it is separated from the law for leprous men and garments, in the form of an appendix.
plague. House leprosy is here represented as being supernatural. This was peculiar to Palestine and to houses of Israelites. The Targum of Jonathan renders this: "And if there be. man who buildeth his house with stolen goods, then. will put", &c.