Numbers 5:1

The Purity of the Camp

1 The LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 5:1 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
English Standard Version (ESV)
1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
New Living Translation (NLT)
1 The LORD gave these instructions to Moses:
The Message Bible (MSG)
1 God spoke to Moses:
American Standard Version (ASV)
1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
1 The LORD said to Moses,
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
1 The LORD spoke to Moses. He said,

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 said to Moses,
2 “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.
3 Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
4 The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.
5 The LORD said to Moses,
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