⁴⁶ He will remain unclean as long as he has the infection; he is unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.^(A)

Isolation of the Unclean

5 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.^{(A) 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 afflicted the king, and he had a serious skin disease until the day of his death.^(A) He lived in a separate house,^[a](B) while Jotham,^(C) the king’s son, was over the household governing the people of the land.^(D)