Numbers 5:1 meaning and explanation

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 5:1, Berean Standard Bible

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Numbers 5 opens with the LORD speaking directly to Moses at the tent of meeting, the pattern by which Israel receives its law. This brief line introduces a command about the camp's purity: those with skin disease, a discharge, or contact with a dead body must live outside the camp because the LORD dwells among his people.

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