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The Unclean

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is defiled by the dead. Both male and female you will put out. You will put them outside the camp, so they do not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.

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The Purity of the Camp

The Lord said to Moses, “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease[a](A) or a discharge(B) of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean(C) because of a dead body.(D) Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:2 The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.