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Num. 5:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Command
tsavah (Hebrew #6680)
(intensively) to constitute, enjoin
KJV usage: appoint, (for-)bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
Pronounce: tsaw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
the children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, that they put out
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
of the camp
machaneh (Hebrew #4264)
an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or even the sacred courts)
KJV usage: army, band, battle, camp, company, drove, host, tents.
Pronounce: makh-an-eh'
Origin: from 2583
everyy leper
tsara` (Hebrew #6879)
to scourge, i.e. (intransitive and figurative) to be stricken with leprosy
KJV usage: leper, leprous.
Pronounce: tsaw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
, and every one that hath an issue
zuwb (Hebrew #2100)
to flow freely (as water), i.e. (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow
KJV usage: flow, gush out, have a (running) issue, pine away, run.
Pronounce: zoob
Origin: a primitive root
z, and whosoever is defiled
tame' (Hebrew #2931)
foul in a relig. sense
KJV usage: defiled, + infamous, polluted(-tion), unclean.
Pronounce: taw-may'
Origin: from 2930
by the dead
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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Num. 12:14• 14And Jehovah said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. (Num. 12:14)
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Lev. 13:3,46• 3And when the priest looketh on the stroke in the skin of his flesh, and the hair in the stroke is turned white, and the stroke looketh deeper than the skin of his flesh, it [is] the stroke of leprosy; and the priest shall look on him and pronounce him unclean.
 46All the days that the sore [shall be] in him, he shall be unclean: he [is] unclean; he shall dwell apart; outside the camp his dwelling [shall be]. (Lev. 13:3,46)
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Deut. 24:8‑9• 8{i}Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou take great heed, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them shall ye take heed to do.{/i}
 9{i}Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam on the way, after that ye came forth out of Egypt.{/i} (Deut. 24:8‑9)
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Lev. 15:2• 2Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man hath a flux from his flesh because of his flux, he [is] unclean. (Lev. 15:2)
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Num. 9:6,10• 6{i}And there were men, who were unclean through the dead body of a man, and could not hold the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.{/i}
 10{i}Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your generations be unclean by reason of a dead body or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall hold the Passover to Jehovah.{/i} (Num. 9:6,10)
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Num. 19:11‑13• 11{i}He that toucheth a dead person, any dead body of a man, shall be unclean seven days.{/i}
 12He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
 13{i}Whoever toucheth a dead person, the dead body of a man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; for the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him: he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him{/i}. (Num. 19:11‑13)
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Num. 31:19• 19{i}And encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever hath killed a person, and whoever hath touched any slain; ye shall purify yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day, you and your captives.{/i} (Num. 31:19)
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Lev. 21:1• 1And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, There shall none defile himself for a dead one (soul) among his peoples, (Lev. 21:1)

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Camp,
Israel,
Leper

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Ministry on This Verse

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put out of the camp.The camp of Israel being now formed, with the sanctuary of God in the centre, orders were given that the lepers and unclean persons should be excluded from the camp, according to the laws given at different times on these subjects.
See the Marginal References.)
This expulsion was founded, 1.
On a purely physical reason; for the diseases were contagious, and therefore there was a necessity of putting those afflicted with them apart, that the infection might not be communicated.
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There was also a spiritual reason:
the camp was the habitation of God; and therefore, in honour of Him who had thus condescended to dwell with them, nothing impure should be permitted to remain.
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Further, there was a typical reason; for the camp was the emblem of the church, where nothing that is defiled should enter, and in which nothing that is unholy should be tolerated.
Num. 12:14• 14And Jehovah said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. (Num. 12:14)
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Lev. 13:46• 46All the days that the sore [shall be] in him, he shall be unclean: he [is] unclean; he shall dwell apart; outside the camp his dwelling [shall be]. (Lev. 13:46)
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Deut. 24:8‑9• 8{i}Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou take great heed, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them shall ye take heed to do.{/i}
 9{i}Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam on the way, after that ye came forth out of Egypt.{/i} (Deut. 24:8‑9)
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2 Kings 7:3• 3{i}And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we abide here until we die?{/i} (2 Kings 7:3)
and every.
Lev. 15:2‑27• 2Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man hath a flux from his flesh because of his flux, he [is] unclean.
 3And this shall be his uncleanness in his flux: whether his flesh run with his flux, or his flesh be closed from his flux, it [is] his uncleanness.
 4Every bed whereon he that hath the flux lieth shall be unclean; and everything whereon he sitteth shall be unclean.
 5And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
 6And he that sitteth on [anything] whereon he that hath the flux sat shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
 7And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the flux shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
 8And if he that hath the flux spit upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
 9And what carriage (or saddle) soever he that hath the flux rideth upon shall be unclean.
 10And whosoever toucheth anything that was under him shall be unclean until the even; and he that beareth those things shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
 11And whomsoever he that hath the flux toucheth without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his raiment, and bathe [himself] in water, and be unclean until the even.
 12And the earthen vessel that he that hath the flux toucheth shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
 13And when he that hath a flux is cleansed of his flux, then he shall count seven days for his cleansing, and wash his raiment, and bathe his flesh in living water, and he shall be clean.
 14And on the eighth day he shall take two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, and come before Jehovah unto the entrance of the tent of meeting, and give them unto the priest.
 15And the priest shall offer them, one as a sin-offering and the other as a burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah for his flux.
 16And if any man's seed of copulation pass from him, then he shall bathe his whole flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
 17And all raiment and every skin, wherein the seed of copulation shall be, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
 18And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation, they shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
 19And if a woman hath a flux, and her flux in her flesh be blood, she shall be seven days in her separation, and whoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
 20And everything that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean; and everything that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.
 21And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his raiment, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
 22And whoever toucheth anything that she sitteth upon shall wash his raiment, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
 23And if it be on the bed or on anything on which she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
 24And if a man lie with her at all, and the uncleanness of her separation come upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
 25And if a woman have her flux of blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if she have the flux beyond the time of her separation, all the days of the flux of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she is unclean.
 26Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her flux shall be to her as the bed of her separation; and everything on which she sitteth shall be unclean, according to the uncleanness of her separation.
 27And whoever toucheth these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his raiment, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even. (Lev. 15:2‑27)
and whosoever.
Num. 9:6‑10• 6{i}And there were men, who were unclean through the dead body of a man, and could not hold the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.{/i}
 7{i}And those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not present the offering of Jehovah at its set time among the children of Israel?{/i}
 8{i}And Moses said to them, Stay, and I will hear what Jehovah commands concerning you.{/i}
 9{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i}
 10{i}Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your generations be unclean by reason of a dead body or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall hold the Passover to Jehovah.{/i} (Num. 9:6‑10)
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Num. 19:11‑16• 11{i}He that toucheth a dead person, any dead body of a man, shall be unclean seven days.{/i}
 12He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
 13{i}Whoever toucheth a dead person, the dead body of a man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel; for the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him: he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him{/i}.
 14This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
 15And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
 16And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. (Num. 19:11‑16)
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Num. 31:19• 19{i}And encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever hath killed a person, and whoever hath touched any slain; ye shall purify yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day, you and your captives.{/i} (Num. 31:19)
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Lev. 21:1• 1And Jehovah said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, There shall none defile himself for a dead one (soul) among his peoples, (Lev. 21:1)
• Every defilement was to be purged out. (“Numbers 5” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by a dead person:

W. Kelly Translation

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Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by a dead person:

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)