The Purity of the Camp

5 The Lord said to Moses, ² “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) 3} Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.^(E)” ⁴ The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the Lord had instructed Moses.

¹⁷ Every firstborn male in Israel, whether human or animal,^(A) is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself.^(B)

¹⁴ The Lord replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face,^(A) would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp^(B) for seven days; after that she can be brought back.” ¹⁵ So Miriam was confined outside the camp^(C) for seven days,^(D) and the people did not move on till she was brought back.