“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.”
As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live outside the camp. The unclean person lives outside the camp in isolation for as long as the condition continues. The outside-the-camp isolation is the same location as the disposal of the sin offering that was burned outside (Leviticus 4:12) and the outside-the-camp burning of the fully defiling skin disease. Jesus, who healed lepers and was crucified outside the city gate, entered the space of the excluded and the defiling. Mark 1:41 records Jesus touching the leper who asked for healing — the one who touched the unclean rather than maintaining the distance the law required.
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