1 The Lord instructed Moses:
2 “Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.
3 You must send away both male or female; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps where I dwell among them.”
4 The Israelites did this, sending them outside the camp. The Israelites did as the Lord instructed Moses.
5 The Lord spoke to Moses: