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Numbers 5:2

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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:
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  1. Leviticus 13:46Rank 1 from verse 2
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    46All 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 habitation be.

  2. Leviticus 21:1Rank 2 from verse 2
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    1AND 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 his people:

  3. Numbers 12:14Rank 3 from verse 2
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    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 camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

  4. Numbers 9:6–10Rank 4 from verse 2
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    6¶ 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 before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

    7And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

    8And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.

    9¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

    10Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.

  5. Numbers 31:19Rank 5 from verse 2
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    19And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

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Numbers 5:2

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command

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Sense 1: To order or direct with authority. Sense 2: An authoritative order, charge, or commandment.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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put

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To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be.

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

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camp

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1. A place where a people, host, or army is lodged or encamped, especially in tents; by extension, the people or host there. 2. To encamp, lodge, or take position.

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every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

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issue

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Sense 1: That which comes, flows, or goes forth from a source: offspring or descendants, a bodily discharge or flow, a stream proceeding outward, or the act of emerging and coming forth. Sense 2: To come or flow forth.

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dead

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Sense 1: Without life; deprived of life. Sense 2: Lifeless, inactive, insensible, or separated from a former state by figure.

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1AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2Command 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:

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3Both 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.

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