Both male and female shall ye put out
Whether leprous, or profluvious, or defiled by touching a dead
carcass: by this law, Miriam, when leprous, was put out of the
camp, ( Numbers
12:14 Numbers
12:15 ) ;
without the camp shall ye put them;
which is repeated that it might be taken notice of, and
punctually observed:
that they defile not their camps;
of which there were four, the camps of Judah, Reuben, Ephraim,
and Dan:
in the midst whereof I dwell;
for the tabernacle, which was the dwelling place of the Lord, was
in the midst of the camps of Israel; they were pitched on the
four quarters of it; and this is a reason why impure persons were
not suffered to be in the camp of Israel, because of the presence
of God in the tabernacle so near them, to whom all, impurity is
loathsome, and not to be permitted in his sight; and though this
was ceremonial, it was typical of the uncleanness of sin, which
is abominable to him, and renders persons unfit for communion
with him, and with his people.
