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Numbers 5:3

You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Both 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.

World English Bible

You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

American Standard Version

both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camp, in the midst whereof I dwell.

Geneva Bible 1599

Both male and female shall ye put out: out of the hoste shall yee put them, that they defile not their tentes among whome I dwell.

Darby Translation

both male and female shall ye put out; outside the camp shall ye put them, that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.

Young's Literal Translation

from male unto female ye do send out; unto the outside of the camp ye do send them; and they defile not their camps in the midst of which I do tabernacle.'

Bible in Basic English

Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.

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Cross references

“without”

1 Kings 7:3 1 Corinthians 5:7–13 2 Thessalonians 3:6 Titus 3:10 Revelation 21:27 2 Corinthians 6:17

1 Kings 7:3 · BSB

The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

1 Corinthians 5:7–13 · BSB

Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 · BSB

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who leads an undisciplined life that is not in keeping with the tradition you received from us.

Titus 3:10 · BSB

Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition,

Revelation 21:27 · BSB

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

2 Corinthians 6:17 · BSB

“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

“defile not”

Numbers 19:22 Haggai 2:13 Haggai 2:14

Numbers 19:22 · BSB

Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”

Haggai 2:13 · BSB

So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.

Haggai 2:14 · BSB

Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.

“in the midst”

Deuteronomy 23:14 Psalm 68:18 Revelation 21:3 Isaiah 12:6 Leviticus 26:11 Leviticus 26:12

Deuteronomy 23:14 · BSB

For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.

Psalm 68:18 · BSB

You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

Revelation 21:3 · BSB

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

Isaiah 12:6 · BSB

Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

Leviticus 26:11 · BSB

And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

Leviticus 26:12 · BSB

I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.

Also

Numbers 35:34

Numbers 35:34 · BSB

Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.

4So the Israelites did this, sending such people outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.

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