“Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty;”
That they defile not their camps in the midst of which I dwell — the theological rationale for expulsion is that YHWH dwells in the camp's center (the tabernacle). The presence of uncleanness would violate the holiness required for God's residence. The camp is transformed into a sacred space fundamentally incompatible with ritual defilement.
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