“And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.”
It must be torn down — its stones, timbers and all the plaster — and taken out of the town to an unclean place. The condemned house is completely demolished: stones, timbers, and all the plaster are removed and taken outside the town. The complete demolition ensures that no part of the defiled structure remains within the community. The outside-the-town disposal of all the house materials parallels the outside-the-camp disposal of the defiled skin disease sufferer's exclusion. The defiled structure is treated like the defiled person: completely excluded from the community's space.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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