Numbers 5:4

4 The sons of Israel did so and sent them outside * * the camp; just as the LORD had spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.

Numbers 5:4 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 5:4

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.

Numbers 5:4 In-Context

2 "Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a dead person.

3 "You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst."

4 The sons of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp; just as the LORD had spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.

5 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

6 "Speak to the sons of Israel, 'When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against the LORD , and that person is guilty,