Sanitation: Quarantine

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  1. “When someone has a swelling or rash or bright spot on his skin that may be an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest. …
  2. But if the priest examines the scaly infection and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days. …
  3. A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
  4. As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
  5. “This is the law for the one afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he is brought to the priest.
  6. The priest is to go outside the camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted person has healed,
  7. The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.
  8. “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land, …
  9. When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.
  10. “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
  11. You must send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
  12. …and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals. …
  13. If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
  14. When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.