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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is unclean by a corpse. You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

The children of Israel did so, and put them outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

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On Unclean Persons

The Lord told Moses, “Command the Israelis to send outside the encampment every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is ritually defiled by contact with a corpse.[a] Whether male or female, send them outside the camp so that they won’t defile their camp, because I live among them.” So the Israelis sent them outside the camp. The Israelis did just what the Lord had told Moses.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:2 Lit. soul