Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

We've been in the wilderness with the Israelites for a little over a year and so far we've made

a covenant, established the laws of that covenant, built a tabernacle, arranged an encampment

around that tabernacle, and assigned rules to the Levites in the surface of the tabernacle.

Today God addressed the rest of the tribes as well, making sure they were living this

set apart lives of purity and holiness that He called them to when He entered into His

covenant with them.

Today when He's dealing with impurity, God starts with the most obvious kind, external impurity.

He orders them to put the people with skin diseases outside of the camp, along with anyone

who's come in contact with a dead body.

As a reminder, this doesn't mean they're kicked out of His people or that they're homeless,

they just have to be quarantined so they don't defile the tabernacle.

Next God moves on to addressing internal impurity, since committed against God or others.

God calls for confession and repentance, as well as legal restitution according to the

laws He gave Moses.

If the person someone was supposed to pay back was dead or had no family, the restitution

went to the priest.

Then we hit a really challenging part of this section and it's challenging for a few reasons.

The section on adultery or suspected adultery is ultimately a call for marital purity.

If anyone defiles that, male or female, the penalty was death in their society according

to Deuteronomy 22.

But what we encountered today was a different thing.

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