Numbers 5:1

Instructions about purity in the camp

1 The LORD spoke to Moses:

Numbers 5:1 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 5:1

And the Lord spake unto Moses
Jarchi says, what follows was said on the day the tabernacle was erected, but it seems rather to have been delivered after the several camps were formed, and the people numbered, when those that were unclean were ordered to be cast out of them:

saying;
as follows.

Numbers 5:1 In-Context

1 The LORD spoke to Moses:

2 Command the Israelites to send out from the camp anyone with a skin disease, an oozing discharge, or who has become unclean from contact with a corpse.

3 You must send out both male and female. You must send them outside the camp so that they will not make their camp, where I live among them, unclean.

4 The Israelites did so and sent them outside the camp. The Israelites did just what the LORD said to Moses.

5 The LORD spoke to Moses: