Ceremonially Unclean Persons Isolated^(A)

5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ² “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every ^(B)leper, everyone who has a ^(C)discharge, and whoever becomes ^(D)defiled ^[a]by a corpse. ³ You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps ^(E)in the midst of which I dwell.” ⁴ And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but ^(A)spit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be ^(B)shut^[a] out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received again.”

The Syrians Flee

³ Now there were four leprous men ^(A)at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?

⁵ Then the Lord ^(A)struck the king, so that he was a leper until the day of his ^(B)death; so he ^(C)dwelt in an isolated house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the royal house, judging the people of the land.