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Positive Commandment #326 of 613

Send the impure person from the Temple

Commandment #326a positive obligation from Numbers 5:2, classified under Levites & Priests in the 613 commandments of the Torah.

Scripture

"Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a dead person.

Numbers 5:2

Hebrew

ב צַו, אֶת-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, וִישַׁלְּחוּ מִן-הַמַּחֲנֶה, כָּל-צָרוּעַ וְכָל-זָב; וְכֹל, טָמֵא לָנָפֶשׁ.

Greek (Septuagint)

2 Πρόσταξον τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ καὶ ἐξαποστειλάτωσαν ἐκ τῆς παρεμβολῆς πάντα λεπρὸν καὶ πάντα γονορρυῆ καὶ πάντα ἀκάθαρτον ἐπὶ ψυχῇ·

Classification

Type
Positive (Thou Shalt)
Book
numbers
Chapter
5

Scholarly References

Parashah
Naso
Sefer HaChinuch
#362
Mishneh Torah
ServiceEntry into the Temple

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