14 But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but (A)spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be (B)shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.”

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then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and (A)pull his sandal off his foot and (B)spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not (C)build up his brother's house.’

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10 They (A)abhor me; they keep aloof from me;
    they do not hesitate to (B)spit at the sight of me.

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(A)I gave my back to those who strike,
    and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;
I hid not my face
    from disgrace and spitting.

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“Command the people of Israel that they (A)put out of the camp everyone who is leprous[a] or has (B)a discharge and everyone who is (C)unclean through contact with the dead. You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, (D)in the midst of which I dwell.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:2 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

45 “The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and (A)let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall (B)cover his upper lip[a] and cry out, (C)‘Unclean, unclean.’ 46 He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be (D)outside the camp.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 13:45 Or mustache

Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to (A)the Father of spirits (B)and live?

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“He has made me (A)a byword of the peoples,
    and I am one before whom men spit.

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20 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the Lord had struck him. 21 (A)And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived (B)in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. And Jotham his son was over the king's household, governing the people of the land.

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And he who is to be cleansed (A)shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but (B)live outside his tent seven days.

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