All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean. He is unclean. He shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside of the camp.
Not to cultivate a field that has been declared impure due to tzaraat
The cited verse
The Hebrew (Masoretic Text)
כָּל־יְמֵי אֲשֶׁר הַנֶּגַע בּוֹ יִטְמָא טָמֵא הוּא בָּדָד יֵשֵׁב מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה מוֹשָׁבוֹ
Literary form: a ritual instruction
Applicability
How the catalog describes where and when this commandment applies. These are independent descriptions, not a verdict on which laws still count.
- Requires a standing Temple
- Binding in the land of Israel
Classical halakhic consequences
The consequences the classical halakhah attaches to this commandment, grouped by who imposes them. Where a category has none recorded, that absence is itself meaningful.
Imposed by a court
No court-imposed penalty is recorded.
At the hands of Heaven
No divinely-imposed consequence is recorded.
Ritual remedy
No ritual remedy is recorded.
How the streams of Judaism treat this commandment
The streams of Judaism read the same commandment differently — an ongoing plurality, not a ranking. Each position below is reported as the catalog records it; none is presented as the correct one.
- Orthodox Not binding
- Conservative Not binding
- Reform Not binding
- Reconstructionist Not binding
- Karaite Position not stated
24 of 613 commandments have been examined in depth so far — this one is queued.
How later traditions received this commandment
How later traditions read or reworked this commandment, each attributed to its own voice. The catalog’s own classification of each reception is shown as it records it, never adopted as GEBible’s.
Qumran (the Dead Sea Scrolls)
- 4Q274 (Tohorot A) read it more strictly
- 11QTemple (11Q19) 45-50 read it more strictly
Rabbinic aggadah
- Leviticus Rabbah (Vayikra Rabbah) 17:4 expanded it homiletically
Philo of Alexandria
- De Specialibus Legibus 1.80-81 (treatment of leprosy/tzaraat within the priestly purity legislation) read it allegorically
Josephus
- Antiquities 3.264 rationalized it
- Contra Apionem 1.229-250 The catalog describes this reception as: polemically rebutted rebuts Manetho's account of the expulsion of polluted persons/'lepers' from Egypt; wholly tangential to the agricultural field prohibition, engaging an Egyptian slander rather than the tzaraat land law
The New Testament
- Matthew 8:1-4 The catalog describes this reception as: presupposed Jesus' healing and instruction to show oneself to the priest presupposes and affirms the Levitical tzaraat inspection system, though it concerns personal skin-tzaraat rather than the agricultural extrapolation
- Luke 17:11-19 The catalog describes this reception as: presupposed ten persons with tzaraat required to present to priests, reflecting the isolation-and-inspection framework for afflicted persons, not impure fields
The Church Fathers
- Origen, Homiliae in Leviticum 8 read it allegorically allegorizes skin-tzaraat of Lev 13-14 generally rather than the agricultural extrapolation specifically
Where this commandment meets modern human-rights frameworks
One modern normative lens, attributed to it — not GEBible’s assessment. Each row names the framework it measures against and the catalog’s own classification of the relation.
This framework catalogues tensions; it records agreement in only one of its entries. The near-total tension rate is the shape of the instrument, not a finding.
No tension with the catalogued modern frameworks is recorded here.