Thematic Bible: Isolation of lepers


Thematic Bible



[For] all [the] days [during] which the infection [is] on him, he shall be unclean; he must live alone; his dwelling [must be] {outside the camp}." Verse ConceptsCamps, Unclean ThingsQuarantiningQuarantineIsolated PersonsOutside The Camp

"Command the {Israelites}: they must send everyone from the camp who is afflicted with a rash, everyone with a fluid discharge, and everyone unclean through [contact with] a corpse. Verse ConceptsHealingLeprosyQuarantiningQuarantineDischarges

Yahweh struck the king, and he was infected with a skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, [while] Jotham the son of the king [was] over the house, governing the people of the land. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesQuarantiningHealingOutcastsQuarantine

But Yahweh said to Moses, "[If] her father had surely spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be confined for seven days to an outside place of the camp, and afterward she may be gathered." Verse ConceptsSpittingSalivaShaming People

So King Uzziah was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house as a leper, for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh. And Jotham his son [was] over the house of the king, judging the people of the land. Verse ConceptsdiseasesHoliness,  Worldly SeparationLonelinessHygieneQuarantine