without the Camp] As Miriam was, Numbers 12:14. This was during the peoples journeying in the wildernesse; after when they were setled in Canaan, the lepers were shut out of the Cities, Luke 17:12. 2 Kings 7:3. at least were confined to an house by themselves, though Kings, as Azariah was, 2 Kings 15:5. & 2 Chron. 26. 21. yet upon necessary occasions they were permitted to come into the streets, and high-wayes, observing a due distance, that they might neither give offence, nor others take offence from them. Luke 17:1. This may intimate how odious the spirituall leprosie is to God, and how infectious evill company is to men.