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Ceremonially Unclean Persons Isolated

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every aleper, everyone who has a bdischarge, and whoever becomes cdefiled by a corpse.  
3 You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps ain the midst of which I dwell.”  
4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

Confession and Restitution

5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Commentaries:


No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Numbers 5:1.

Numbers 5:1-3

God says that it is impure for us to be sick, and it is also impure spiritually for us to have heresy thoughts in our minds, or listen to it.

And we saw in Numbers 5 the physical representation for the spiritual quarantine of false doctrine. As defiling diseases are destroyers of physical lives, so also are those defilers who spread false doctrine, destroyers of spiritual lives. They should be removed from the fellowship of the church, spiritually quarantined.

Excerpted from Quarantine Principles (2002)

Numbers 5:1-3

God was looking out for His own cleanliness as well as Israel's cleanliness.

Excerpted from Deuteronomy (Part 7)

Numbers 5:1-4

Again, this is because God was in their midst.

Excerpted from Deuteronomy (Part 3) (1994)

 
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