“When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;”
When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land. The future tense communicates that the house regulations anticipate the settled-land context: these laws are for when Israel inhabits Canaan, not for the wilderness period. The acknowledgment that God puts a spreading mold in the house — that the divine agency is involved in even the material challenges of settled life — grounds the house regulations in the same theological framework as every other aspect of the covenant's law.
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