⁴⁶ He shall be unclean. All the days he has the sore he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall ^[a]dwell alone; his dwelling shall be ^(A)outside the camp.

The Syrians Flee

³ Now there were four leprous men ^(A)at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?

⁵ Then the Lord ^(A)struck the king, so that he was a leper until the day of his ^(B)death; so he ^(C)dwelt in an isolated house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the royal house, judging the people of the land.

^21 (A)King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He dwelt in an ^(B)isolated house, because he was a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord. Then Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but ^(A)spit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be ^(B)shut^[a] out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received again.” ^15 (C)So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again.

Ceremonially Unclean Persons Isolated^(A)

5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ² “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every ^(B)leper, everyone who has a ^(C)discharge, and whoever becomes ^(D)defiled ^[a]by a corpse. ³ You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps ^(E)in the midst of which I dwell.” ⁴ And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

^15 [a]But ^(A)outside are ^(B)dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

²⁷ But ^(A)there shall by no means enter it anything ^[a]that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s ^(B)Book of Life.

¹⁵ looking carefully lest anyone ^(A)fall short of the grace of God; lest any ^(B)root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; ¹⁶ lest there be any ^(C)fornicator or ^[a]profane person like Esau, ^(D)who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.