1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. ‘Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.
3. Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.’
4. The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the Lord had instructed Moses.
5. The Lord said to Moses,