That they put out of the camp— Le Clerc conjectures, that the camp of each tribe had some vacant space left, which was reckoned without the camp, and that here the unclean were lodged by themselves; for that they were banished quite beyond the bounds of all the tents, at a great distance from all their friends and relations, appears less probable. "These legal pollutions," says Ainsworth, "figured our pollution by sin; and the removing of such out of the Lord's camp, figured the removal of unrepenting sinners out of the church triumphant, into which shall in no wise enter any thing that defileth." Revelation 21:27. Isaiah 52:1.
Related Commentaries of Numbers 5:2
Numbers 5:2
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: