King James Version
Numbers 5:4 in the King James Version says “And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children ...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.”
Numbers 5:4 · KJV
Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
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.
And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
“And the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“and put them out”
H7971to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the camp”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“as the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
“And the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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