Numbers 5:4
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New International Version (©2011)
The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses and removed such people from the camp.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the people of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The sons of Israel did so and sent them outside the camp; just as the LORD had spoken to Moses, thus the sons of Israel did.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The Israelites did this, sending them outside the camp. The Israelites did as the LORD instructed Moses.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So the Israelis sent them outside the camp. The Israelis did just what the LORD had told Moses.

NET Bible (©2006)
So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the LORD had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So the Israelites did as the LORD had told Moses. They sent these unclean people outside the camp.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the children of Israel did so, and put them out, outside the camp: as the LORD spoke unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.

American King James Version
And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

American Standard Version
And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp; as Jehovah spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel did so, and they cast them forth without the camp, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

Darby Bible Translation
And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp: as Jehovah had said to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

World English Bible
The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel do so, and they send them out unto the outside of the camp; as Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses so have the sons of Israel done.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:1-10 The camp was to be cleansed. The purity of the church must be kept as carefully as the peace and order of it. Every polluted Israelite must be separated. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable. The greater profession of religion any house or family makes, the more they are obliged to put away iniquity far from them. If a man overreach or defraud his brother in any matter, it is a trespass against the Lord, who strictly charges and commands us to do justly. What is to be done when a man's awakened conscience charges him with guilt of this kind, though done long ago? He must confess his sin, confess it to God, confess it to his neighbour, and take shame to himself; though it go against him to own himself in a lie, yet he must do it. Satisfaction must be made for the offence done to God, as well as for the loss sustained by the neighbour; restitution in that case is not enough without faith and repentance. While that which is wrongly gotten is knowingly kept, the guilt remains on the conscience, and is not done away by sacrifice or offering, prayers or tears; for it is the same act of sin persisted in. This is the doctrine of right reason, and of the word of God. It detects hypocrites, and directs the tender conscience to proper conduct, which, springing from faith in Christ, will make way for inward peace.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - So did the children of Israel. It is difficult to form any estimate of the numbers thus separated; if we may judge at all from the prevalence of such defilements (especially those under the second head) now, it must have seriously aggravated both the labour and the difficulty of the march. Here was a trial of their faith.

CHAPTER 5:8-10 EXPOSITION. RESTITUTION TO BE MADE FOR TRESPASSES (verses 5-10).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the children of Israel did so, and put them without the camp,.... Aben Ezra observes, that this was done immediately before they journeyed, and that those that were defiled journeyed between the standard of Ephraim and the standard of Dan; but this, he says, was by way of conjecture, since it is not expressed:

as the Lord spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel; they were obedient in this particular.

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Cleansing the Camps
…2Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that has an issue, and whoever is defiled by the dead: 3Both male and female shall you put out, without the camp shall you put them; that they defile not their camps, in the middle whereof I dwell. 4And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Numbers 5:3 Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them."
Numbers 5:5 The LORD said to Moses,