Numbers 5:3
You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”
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Leviticus 26:11I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
Numbers 35:34You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, the LORD, dwell among the children of Israel.’”
Deuteronomy 23:15You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.
Psalms 68:18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell there.
Haggai 2:13Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touches any of these, will it be unclean?” The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
2 Corinthians 6:16What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in 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 →