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Ramban on Numbers 5:2/רמב"ן על במדבר ה׳:ב׳
אוִישַׁלְּחוּ מִן הַמַּחֲנֶה – אַחַר שֶׁהֵקִים אֶת הַמִּשְׁכָּן, צִוָּה בְּשִׁלּוּחַ הַטְּמֵאִים מִן הַמַּחֲנֶה, שֶׁיִּהְיֶה הַמַּחֲנֶה קָדוֹשׁ וְרָאוּי שֶׁתִּשְׁרֶה בּוֹ שְׁכִינָה, וְהִיא מִצְוָה נוֹהֶגֶת מִיָּד וּלְדוֹרוֹת. וּבַעֲבוּר שֶׁמָּנָה יִשְׂרָאֵל לְמִשְׁפְּחוֹתָם לְבֵית אֲבוֹתָם, וְהִבְדִּיל מֵהֶם עֵרֶב רַב אֲשֶׁר בְּתוֹכָם, הִשְׁלִים בַּאֲשַׁם הַגְּזֵלוֹת דִּין הַגּוֹזֵל אֶת הַגֵּר:
1AND THEY SHALL SEND AWAY FROM THE CAMP EVERY LEPER etc. After he [Moses] had erected the Tabernacle, He commanded that the impure should be sent away from the camp in order that the camp should be holy and fit for the Divine Presence to reside therein, this being a commandment which was applicable immediately and in [all subsequent] generations.32, Vol. I, pp. 39-40. And because He counted Israel after their families, by the house of their fathers,33 and separated from them the mixed multitude34 which was among them, He concluded with [the law of] the guilt-offering for robberies35 [which has to be brought] by one who robs a proselyte.36