The general purpose of the directions given in this and the next chapter is to attest to and vindicate, by modes in harmony with the spirit of the …

And the children of Israel did so, and put them without the
camp
Aben Ezra observes, …

The camp was to be cleansed. The purity of the church must be kept as carefully as the peace and order of it. Every polluted Israelite must be sepa…