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Rules Concerning Those Unclean

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the Israelites:[a] they must send everyone from the camp who is afflicted with a rash,[b] everyone with a fluid discharge, and everyone unclean through contact with a corpse. You will send away both male and female;[c] you will send them outside the camp.[d] They must not make unclean their camps where I am dwelling in their midst.” So the Israelites[e] did so. They sent them away outside the camp;[f] just as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the Israelites.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Numbers 5:2 The precise meaning is uncertain; many modern translations suggest “leprosy”
  3. Numbers 5:3 Literally “from male until female”
  4. Numbers 5:3 Literally “to an outside place of the camp”
  5. Numbers 5:4 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  6. Numbers 5:4 Literally “to an outside place of the camp”
  7. Numbers 5:4 Literally “sons/children of Israel”

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