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Numbers 5:4

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So the Israelites did this, sending such people outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp; as Jehovah spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Numbers 5

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And the children of Israel did so, and put them without the camp,.... Aben Ezra observes, that this was done immediately before they journeyed, and that those that were defiled journeyed between the standard of Ephraim and the standard of Dan; but this, he says, was by way of conjecture, since it is not expressed: as the Lord spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel; they were obedient in this particular.

This site's exposition

So the Israelites did this

on Numbers 5:4-5

Israel obeys, and the verse says so twice over, which matches the closing line of the census at Numbers 4:49. Compliance is recorded steadily from chapter 1 through chapter 10, and the record breaks at 11:1, where the people complain.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It is for the glory of Christ and the edification of his church that those who are openly and incorrigibly profane and vicious should be put out and kept from Christian communion till they repent. (2.) What God himself will do in the great day: he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather out of his kingdom all things that offend.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

And the children of Israel - put them out - This is the earliest account we have of such separations; and probably this ordinance gave the first idea of a hospital, where all those who are afflicted with contagious disorders are put into particular wards, under medical treatment. Though no mention be made of the situation, circumstances, etc., of those expelled persons, we may certainly infer that they were treated with that humanity which their distressed state required.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּֽעֲשׂוּ־and they did

    vaiyaasu-H6213 →2628 times

  • כֵן֙so

    khenH3651 →771 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וַיְשַׁלְּח֣וּand they sent away

    vayshalechuH7971 →845 times

  • אוֹתָ֔ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מִח֖וּץfrom [the] outside

    michutzH2351 →164 times

  • לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑הof the camp

    lamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֨רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • דִּבֶּ֤רhe had spoken

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • כֵּ֥ןso

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • עָשׂ֖וּthey did

    ʾasuH6213 →2628 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ פIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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