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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Numbers 5:2 Catholic Bible: "Command the people of Israel to expel from the camp everyone with a dreaded skin disease or a bodily discharge and everyone who is unclean by contact with a corpse. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/numbers/5-2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/numbers/5-2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/numbers/5-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/numbers/1.htm">Numbers</a> > <a href="/gntd/numbers/5.htm">Chapter 5</a> > Verse 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/5-1.htm" title="Numbers 5:1">◄</a> Numbers 5:2 <a href="../numbers/5-3.htm" title="Numbers 5:3">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/numbers/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/numbers/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"Command the people of Israel to expel from the camp everyone with a dreaded skin disease or a bodily discharge and everyone who is unclean by contact with a corpse. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/numbers/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Command the Israelites to put out of the camp everyone who is leprous, or has a discharge, and everyone who is unclean through contact with a corpse;<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/numbers/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Order the Israelites to expel from camp everyone with a scaly infection, and everyone suffering from a discharge, and everyone who has become unclean by contact with a corpse.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/numbers/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead:<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead:</p><p class="hdg">put out of the camp.</p><p class="hdg2">1. On a purely physical reason; for the diseases were contagious, and therefore there was a necessity of putting those afflicted with them apart, that the infection might not be communicated.</p><p class="hdg2">2. There was also a spiritual reason; the camp was the habitation of God; and therefore, in honour of Him who had thus condescended to dwell with them, nothing impure should be permitted to remain.</p><p class="hdg2">3. Further, there was a typical reason; for the camp was the emblem of the church, where nothing that is defiled should enter, and in which nothing that is unholy should be tolerated.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/12-14.htm">Numbers 12:14</a> And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall be called again.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/13-46.htm">Leviticus 13:46</a> All the time that he is a leper and unclean he shall dwell alone without the camp.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/24-8.htm">Deuteronomy 24:8,9</a> Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy, but thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall teach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil thou it carefully. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/7-3.htm">2 Kings 7:3</a> Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?</p><p class="hdg">and every</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/15-2.htm">Leviticus 15:2-27</a> Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that hath an issue of seed, shall be unclean. . . . </p><p class="hdg">and whosoever</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/9-6.htm">Numbers 9:6-10</a> But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man, who could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/19-11.htm">Numbers 19:11-16</a> He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/31-19.htm">Numbers 31:19</a> And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, or touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day and the seventh day.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/21-1.htm">Leviticus 21:1</a> The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say for them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/numbers/5.htm">Cleansing the Camps</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl">Command the children of Israel, that they cast out of the camp every leper, and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or is defiled by the dead:</span><span class="reftext">3</span>Whether it be man or woman, cast ye them out of the camp, lest they defile it when I shall dwell with you,…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/13-8.htm">Leviticus 13:8</a></span><br />And shall be condemned of uncleanness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/13-46.htm">Leviticus 13:46</a></span><br />All the time that he is a leper and unclean he shall dwell alone without the camp.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/14-8.htm">Leviticus 14:8</a></span><br />And when the man hath washed his clothes, he shall shave all the hair of his body, and shall be washed with water: and being purified he shall enter into the camp, yet so that he tarry without his own tent seven days.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/15-2.htm">Leviticus 15:2</a></span><br />Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The man that hath an issue of seed, shall be unclean.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/21-1.htm">Leviticus 21:1</a></span><br />The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say for them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../leviticus/23-29.htm">Leviticus 23:29</a></span><br />Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish from among his people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/5-1.htm">Numbers 5:1</a></span><br />And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/9-6.htm">Numbers 9:6</a></span><br />But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a man, who could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/12-10.htm">Numbers 12:10</a></span><br />The cloud also that was over the tabernacle departed: and behold Mary appeared white as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had looked on her, and saw her all covered with leprosy,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/12-14.htm">Numbers 12:14</a></span><br />And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall be called again.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/19-11.htm">Numbers 19:11</a></span><br />He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/7-3.htm">2 Kings 7:3</a></span><br />Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/24-18.htm">Body</a> <a href="/numbers/4-15.htm">Camp</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-11.htm">Ceremonially</a> <a href="/numbers/3-50.htm">Children</a> <a href="/numbers/4-49.htm">Command</a> <a href="/colossians/2-19.htm">Contact</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-30.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/leviticus/21-14.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-4.htm">Discharge</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-25.htm">Disease</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-4.htm">Flow</a> <a href="/leviticus/14-57.htm">Infectious</a> <a href="/numbers/4-46.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/numbers/3-50.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/numbers/3-12.htm">Issue</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-11.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-4.htm">Leper</a> <a href="/numbers/3-10.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/numbers/4-32.htm">Outside</a> <a href="/numbers/4-25.htm">Skin</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-31.htm">Sort</a> <a href="/numbers/1-52.htm">Tent-Circle</a> <a href="/numbers/4-15.htm">Touch</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-27.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/ezra/10-8.htm">Whosoever</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/numbers/5-21.htm">Body</a> <a href="/numbers/5-3.htm">Camp</a> <a href="/numbers/6-7.htm">Ceremonially</a> <a href="/numbers/5-4.htm">Children</a> <a href="/numbers/9-8.htm">Command</a> <a href="/haggai/2-13.htm">Contact</a> <a href="/numbers/6-6.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/numbers/5-13.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/2_samuel/3-29.htm">Discharge</a> <a href="/numbers/5-22.htm">Disease</a> <a href="/numbers/13-27.htm">Flow</a> <a href="/leviticus/13-3.htm">Infectious</a> <a href="/numbers/5-4.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/numbers/5-4.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/numbers/8-16.htm">Issue</a> <a href="/numbers/13-19.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/2_samuel/3-29.htm">Leper</a> <a href="/numbers/8-20.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/numbers/5-3.htm">Outside</a> <a href="/numbers/6-4.htm">Skin</a> <a href="/numbers/11-5.htm">Sort</a> <a href="/numbers/5-3.htm">Tent-Circle</a> <a href="/numbers/16-26.htm">Touch</a> <a href="/numbers/5-3.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/ezra/10-8.htm">Whosoever</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/numbers/5-2.htm">Numbers 5:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/numbers/5-2.htm">Numbers 5:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/numbers/5-2.htm">Numbers 5:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/numbers/5-2.htm">Numbers 5:2 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/numbers/5-2.htm">Numbers 5:2 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/numbers/5-2.htm">Numbers 5:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/numbers/5-2.htm">Numbers 5:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/numbers/5-2.htm">Numbers 5:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/numbers/5-2.htm">Numbers 5:2 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a an and any anyone away because body camp ceremonially Command dead discharge disease every everyone from has having infectious is Israel Israelites kind leper of or person send skin sons that the they to unclean who<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/numbers/5-2.htm">OT Law: Numbers 5:2 Command the children of Israel that they (Nu Num.) 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