Numbers 5:2 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 5:2

“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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:

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Commentary

3 voices

Theodoret of Cyrus

QUESTIONS ON NUMBERS 8 (458)

Why did he command these men, and lepers, and those with gonorrhea, to dwell outside the camp?He teaches us great things from small things. For if one who touches a dead body is unclean, so much the more is one who kills a man, because …

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Put out of the camp every leper - According to the preceding plan, it is sufficiently evident that each camp had a space behind it, and on one side, whither the infected might be removed, and where probably convenient places were erected for the accommodation of the infected; for we cannot suppose that they were driven out into the naked wilderness. But the expulsion mentioned here was founded, 1. On a purely physical reason, viz., the diseases were contagious, and therefore there was a necessity of putting those afflicted by them apart, that the infection might not be communicated.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

They are generally obliged to wear a distinctive badge that people may know them at first sight and be warned to avoid them. Other means were adopted among the ancient Jews by putting their hand on their mouth and crying, "Unclean, unclean" [Le 13:45]. But their general treatment, as to exclusion from society, was the same as now described.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
צַ֚ו	tzav	command	H6680 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
וִֽישַׁלְּחוּ֙	vi.sha.le.Chu	so they may send away	H7971 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה	ha.ma.cha.Neh	the camp	H4264 →
כָּל־	kol-	any	H3605 →
צָר֖וּעַ	tza.Ru.a'	[one who] has a skin disease	H6879 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and any	H3605 →
זָ֑ב	Zav	[one who] has a discharge	H2100 →
וְכֹ֖ל	ve.Khol	and any	H3605 →
טָמֵ֥א	ta.Me'	[person] unclean	H2931 →
לָנָֽפֶשׁ׃	la.Na.fesh	to a corpse	H5315 →

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Through
Numbers 12:14
But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days;…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 25:9
  his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not…
- Job 30:10
  They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
- Numbers 5:2–3
  “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
- Isaiah 50:6
  I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
Through
Leviticus 21:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,
leads to
- Ezekiel 44:25
  A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,
- Leviticus 19:28
  You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
Through
Leviticus 13:46
As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
leads to
- 2 Kings 7:3
  Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?
- 2 Kings 15:5
  And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people…

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