Numbers 5:4

4 The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.

Numbers 5:4 in Other Translations

KJV
4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
ESV
4 And the people of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.
NLT
4 So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses and removed such people from the camp.
MSG
4 The People of Israel did this, banning them from the camp. They did exactly what God had commanded through Moses.
CSB
4 The Israelites did this, sending them outside the camp. The Israelites did as the Lord instructed Moses.

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 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,
6 “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any man or woman who wrongs another in any way and so is unfaithful to the LORD is guilty
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