Numbers 5:3
Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.
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In Context
4So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:11And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust.
Numbers 35:34Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 23:15Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:
Psalms 68:18\68:17\The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place.
Haggai 2:13Then Haggai said, Will any of these be made unclean by the touch of one who is unclean through touching a dead body? And the priests answering said, It will be made unclean.
2 Corinthians 6:16And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:2-11
The Unclean to Be Removed. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 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 the dead: 3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. 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. 5 And the… Read the whole commentary →