Parsha Nasso: Numbers 4:21-Numbers 7:89

Parsha Nasso: Day 3: (Numbers 5:1-10) (Study Notes)

In this portion of our Parsha study, we make a sudden shift from census-taking to mitzvot-giving. With all of the fighting-aged men accounted for, the service-aged Priests numbered, and the total number of first-born redeemers tallied Hashem (the Holy One, blessed be He) through Moshe Rabbeinu begins communicating the laws which the listed individuals (and their family members) must keep, and thereby live.

(Numbers 5:1-4)

The first mitzvot (or covenantal vow) given by Hashem (the Holy One, blessed be He) after the counting was completed were laws pertaining to those people whom the Israelites are to remove from their camp. These people included individuals who:

1. Have an eruption (see Leviticus 13)

Parsha Nasso: Day 3: Numbers 5:1-10

Numbers Chapter 5

וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר׃

1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:

צַ֚ו אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וִֽישַׁלְּחוּ֙ מִן־הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה כׇּל־צָר֖וּעַ וְכׇל־זָ֑ב וְכֹ֖ל טָמֵ֥א לָנָֽפֶשׁ׃

2 ’Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead;