Numbers 5:1-4

Exclusion of The levitically Unclean from the camp

v. 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

v. 2. Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, Leviticus 13:3-1 Corinthians :, and every one that hath an issue, Leviticus 15:2, and whosoever is defiled by the dead, by contact with a dead person, or, in some cases, by the mere presence in the house where a person dies, Leviticus 21:1;

v. 3. both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them, (and this regulation was enforced even in the case of Miriam, Numbers 12:14,) that they defile not their camps, the plural being used here because the large encampment was divided into smaller camps, as ordered in Chapter 2, in the midst whereof I dwell.

v. 4. And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp; as the Lord spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel. At a later day, in Canaan, this regulation was observed by assigning, at least to the lepers, a special district outside of the city to live.