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Numbers 5:3

Whether male or female, you must expel them so they won't make their camp unclean, for that is where I live with them.”

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2“Order the Israelites to expel from the camp anyone who has a skin disease, or who has a discharge, or who is unclean from touching a dead body.

4The Israelites followed these instructions, and expelled such people from the camp. They did what the Lord had told Moses they should do.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:11I will come and live with you—I certainly won't reject you.

Numbers 35:34Don't make the land impure where you live because I live there too. I am the Lord, and I live with the Israelites.’”

Deuteronomy 23:15Don't send a slave back to their master if they have come to you for protection.

Psalms 68:18As you ascended to your high throne you led a procession of prisoners. You received gifts from the people, even from those who had rebelled against the home of the Lord God.

Haggai 2:13Then Haggai asked, “If someone becomes unclean by touching a dead body and then touches any of these foods, do they become unclean?” The priests answered, “Yes, it does become unclean.”

2 Corinthians 6:16What compromise could the Temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said: “I will live in them and walk among them. 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 →

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