LEVITICUS—NOTE ON Leviticus 13:3 The law required unclean people to live outside the camp until they were free of disease (vv. Leviticus 13:45) and to present a sacrifice as part of a cleansing ceremony (Leviticus 14:1). See Introduction: Problems in Understanding Leviticus 1:1. The purpose of this law was to prevent what is unclean from coming into contact with what is holy, which would be dangerous for the unclean person and for the whole community. The law did not imply that the unclean person was under God’s condemnation or that he or she should be excluded from the love of the community.

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