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Unclean Sent Outside the Camp

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Command the sons of Israel that they (A)send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a (B)discharge and everyone who is [a](C)unclean because of a dead person. You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell (D)in their midst.” And the sons of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp; just as Yahweh had spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 5:2 Or defiled, cf. 5:3, 13, 14

14 But Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but (A)spit in her face, would she not bear her dishonor for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days (B)outside the camp, and afterward she may be received again.”

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