Numbers 5:2
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What does Numbers 5:2 mean?
Command the children of Israel
Not as from himself, but from the Lord; deliver out the following
as a command of his, to which obedience was required of all the
children of Israel:
that they put out of the camp every leper;
there were three camps, Jarchi says, in the time of their
encampment; between the curtains was the camp of the Shechinah,
or the divine Majesty; the encampment of the Levites round about;
and from thence to the end was the camp of the standards, to the
four winds, which was the camp of Israel; and the leper was to be
put out of them all; so Ben Gersom; see ( Leviticus
13:46 ) ;
and everyone that hath an issue;
a gonorrhoea, man or woman, see ( Leviticus
15:2 Leviticus
15:19 ) ; according Jarchi, such an one might be in the camp
of Israel, but was to be put out of the other two camps:
and whosoever is defiled by the dead;
by attending the funerals of the dead, or touching them, see (
Leviticus 21:1 ) (
22:4
) ; such an one might go into the camp of the Levites, according
to Jarchi and Ben Gersom; and was to be put of none but the camp
of the Shechinah, or the tabernacle; but the camp of Israel seems
to be meant of them all, out of which they were to be put, as an
emblem of the rejection of all impure persons out of the church
of God.
