Numbers 5:2

Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Command	צַ֚ו tzav	H6680	(intensively) to constitute · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
children	בְּנֵ֣י be.Nei	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
out	וִֽישַׁלְּחוּ֙ vi.sha.le.Chu	H7971	to send away · conjunction + verb, piel, 3rd person masculine plural
camp	הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה ha.ma.cha.Neh	H4264	an encampment (of travellers or troops) · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
leper	צָר֖וּעַ tza.Ru.a'	H6879	to scourge · verb, qal passive participle, masculine singular absolute
issue	זָ֑ב Zav	H2100	to flow freely (as water) · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
defiled	טָמֵ֥א ta.Me'	H2931	foul in a religious sense · adjective, masculine singular absolute
dead	לָנָֽפֶשׁ la.Na.fesh	H5315	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Leviticus 13:46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitat…
Leviticus 21:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among hi…
Numbers 9:6-10 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came bef…
Numbers 12:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the cam…
Numbers 31:19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves…
Leviticus 15:2-27 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean…
Numbers 19:11-16 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
Deuteronomy 24:8-9 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I…

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:1-10

Here is, I. A command for the purifying of the camp, by turning out from within its lines all those that were ceremonially unclean, by issues, leprosies, or the touch of dead bodies, until they were cleansed according to the law, Num 5:2, Num 5:3. 1. These orders are executed immediately, Num 5:4. (1.) The camp was now newly-modelled and put in order, and therefore, to complete the reformation of it, it is next to be cleansed. Note, The purity of the church must be as carefully consulted and preserved as the peace and order of it. It is requisite, not only that every Israelite be confined to his own standard, but that every polluted Israelite be separated from it. The wisdom from above is fi…

Read the whole note in the console

John Gill on Numbers 5:2

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; according Ja…

Read the whole note in the console

John Calvin on Numbers 5:1-4

Numbers 5:1-3 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 1. Et loquutus est Jehova ad Mosen, dicendo: 2. Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 2. Praecipe filiis Israel ut ejiciant e castris omnem leprosum, omnem seminifluum, et omnem immundum super anima. 3. Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. 3. Tam masculum quam faeminam ejicietis: extra castra ejicietis eos, ne contaminent castra sua, quia ego habito in medio eorum. 2. Command the children of Israel. This passage clearly s…

The Church Fathers

What does "unclean in soul" mean?The man who has touched a corpse or approached the bones of a dead man.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, QUESTIONS ON NUMBERS 7

Why did he command these men, and lepers, and those with gonorrhea, to dwell outside the camp?He teaches us great things from small things. For if one who touches a dead body is unclean, so much the more is one who kills a man, because he incurs blood guilt. And if a leper is unclean, so much the more is one who perpetrates various forms of iniquity. And through the condemnation of one with gonorrhea, adultery is condemned. For if an involuntary act is abominable, so much the more is an act committed deliberately.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, QUESTIONS ON NUMBERS 8

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Issue, Running — (Leviticus 15:2,3; 22:4; Numbers 5:2; 2 Samuel 3:29) In (Leviticus 15:3) a distinction is introduced, which merely means that the cessation of the actual flux does not constitute ceremonial…
Leprosy — (Heb. tsara’ath, a “smiting,” a “stroke,” because the disease was regarded as a direct providential infliction). This name is from the Greek lepra, by which the Greek physicians designated the…
Church Of Israel · Members of: Separated from, while unclean — Members of: Separated from, while unclean
Dead, The · Those defiled by, removed from the camp — Those defiled by, removed from the camp
Defilement · Ceremonial caused by: Having a leprosy — Ceremonial caused by: Having a leprosy
Disease · .Of the sexual organsLe 15;22:4; — .Of the sexual organsLe 15;22:4;
Leprosy · Law concerningLe 13;14;22:4; — Law concerningLe 13;14;22:4;
Sanitation · CONTAGION — CONTAGION

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Numbers 5:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:1-10

John Gill on Numbers 5:2

John Calvin on Numbers 5:1-4

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Numbers 5:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Numbers 5:1-10

John Gill on Numbers 5:2

John Calvin on Numbers 5:1-4

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Numbers 5:1-4

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Numbers 5:2

Rashi on Numbers 5:2