Numbers 5:3
You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
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Leviticus 26:11And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
Numbers 35:34Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”
Deuteronomy 23:15Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
Psalms 68:18You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
Haggai 2:13So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.
2 Corinthians 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among 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 →