Numbers 5:2

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:

Cross-references

Numbers 9:6-10 deals with defilement from a dead body—the same impurity that Numbers 5:2 says excludes people from the camp.

Numbers 12:14 applies the exclusion rule—Miriam is put outside the camp for leprosy, a direct instance of the command in Numbers 5:2.

Numbers 19:11-16 provides purification for defilement by a dead body, the impurity requiring exclusion in Numbers 5:2.

Numbers 31:19 also requires those who touched a slain person to stay outside the camp for purification, mirroring the regulation about corpse uncleanness here.

Numbers 19:3 describes the red heifer being taken outside the camp and burned, the very purification ritual for the corpse uncleanness that requires exclusion here.

Leviticus 13:46 gives the same regulation: lepers must live alone outside the camp, directly echoing the exclusion in Numbers 5:2.

Leviticus 15:2-27 details impurity from discharges, one of the three categories in Numbers 5:2 that require removal from the camp.

Deuteronomy 24:8 reinforces the leprosy command, instructing careful obedience to the priests' directions as in Numbers 5:2.

Deuteronomy 24:9 recalls Miriam's leprosy punishment as a warning, tying directly to the exclusion rule in Numbers 5:2.

Deuteronomy 23:10 commands a man with a nocturnal emission to stay outside the camp, a parallel case of temporary uncleanness requiring separation.

2 Chronicles 26:21 tells of King Uzziah, leprous, dwelling in a separate house cut off from the temple—a direct application of the leprosy exclusion rule.

Matthew 8:2 Contrast

Matthew 8:2 shows a leper approaching Jesus for healing, in direct contrast to the OT command to exclude lepers from the community.

Luke 17:12 Parallel

In Luke 17:12, lepers stand at a distance, reflecting the OT quarantine for those with defiling skin disease commanded here.

Leviticus 21:1 prohibits priests from defiling themselves for the dead, a stricter application of the same corpse-uncleanness principle from this verse.

2 Kings 7:3 Parallel

2 Kings 7:3 shows lepers at the gate, illustrating the ongoing practice of exclusion commanded in Numbers 5:2.

Haggai 2:13 Parallel

Haggai 2:13 teaches that touching a dead body transmits uncleanness, the same principle that triggers the exclusion from the camp here.