All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
Dwell alone; without the camp - in a lazaretto by himself, or associated with other lepers (Numbers 12:15; 2 Kings 7:3; 2 Kings 7:8). Lepers are subjected to the same doom of social expulsion in the modern countries of the East, where the slightest ascertained taint of the malady carries with it a seclusion tantamount to banishment from the rest of the community, or even to perpetual detention in a lazaret. Enactments for the arrest and imprisonment of lepers have been proposed and passed even within the last few years in some of the Indian colonies of the British empire. In the villages of Syria lepers are required to go to Damascus, or some other town, where there may be a public asylum; and if they will not conform to this rule, they are forced to live in a cave, hut, or booth of green boughs outside the village, where they remain in perpetual quarantine (see instances, 'The Land and the Book;' vol. 1:, p. 286; Rogers' 'Domestic Life in Palestine,' p. 16).