Numbers 5:1-4
Lexham English Bible
Rules Concerning Those Unclean
5 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “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. 3 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.” 4 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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- Numbers 5:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 5:2 The precise meaning is uncertain; many modern translations suggest “leprosy”
- Numbers 5:3 Literally “from male until female”
- Numbers 5:3 Literally “to an outside place of the camp”
- Numbers 5:4 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 5:4 Literally “to an outside place of the camp”
- Numbers 5:4 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
Numbers 5:1-4
New Living Translation
Purity in Israel’s Camp
5 The Lord gave these instructions to Moses: 2 “Command the people of Israel to remove from the camp anyone who has a skin disease[a] or a discharge, or who has become ceremonially unclean by touching a dead person. 3 This command applies to men and women alike. Remove them so they will not defile the camp in which I live among them.” 4 So the Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses and removed such people from the camp.
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- 5:2 Traditionally rendered leprosy. The Hebrew word used here describes various skin diseases.
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