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2-3 to say to the people of Israel, “Put out of the camp everyone who has leprosy[a] or a bodily discharge or who has touched a dead body. Now that I live among my people, their camp must be kept clean.”

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  1. 5.2,3 leprosy: The word translated “leprosy” was used for many different kinds of skin diseases.

“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease[a](A) or a discharge(B) of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean(C) because of a dead body.(D)

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  1. Numbers 5:2 The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.

2-3 to say to the people of Israel, “Put out of the camp everyone who has leprosy[a] or a bodily discharge or who has touched a dead body. Now that I live among my people, their camp must be kept clean.”

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  1. 5.2,3 leprosy: The word translated “leprosy” was used for many different kinds of skin diseases.

Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.(A)

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