Numbers 5:2 - Exposition

Every leper. The law of the leper had been given in great detail in Leviticus 13:1-59 and Leviticus 14:1-57 , and it had been already ordered that he should be put out of the camp (Le Leviticus 13:46 , and cf. Leviticus 14:3 ). Every one that hath an issue. These defilements are treated of in Leviticus 15:1-33 ; where, however, it is not expressly ordered that those so polluted should be put out of the camp. Whosoever is defiled by the dead. The fact of being thus defiled is recognized in Le Leviticus 11:24 ; Leviticus 21:1 , but the formal regulations concerning it are not given until Numbers 19:21 . Probably the popular opinion and practice was sufficiently definite to explain the present command.