Numbers 5:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

By which caution God would intimate the possibility and danger of men's being made guilty by other men's sins, and the necessary duty of avoiding intimate converse with wicked men. In the midst whereof I dwell, by my special and gracious presence; and therefore the permission of such impurities is the greater injury and provocation to me, as being done in my sight, and reflecting dishonour upon my name.

Numbers 5:3

3 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.