Commentary for Menachot 189:13

מיתיבי בשעת סילוק מסעות קדשים נפסלין ביוצא וזבין ומצורעין משתלחין חוץ למחיצתן מאי לאו אפילו לחם הפנים לא בר מלחם הפנים

And the other? - He derives [the order of the standards] from the verse, The camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. II, 17.');">¹³</span> An objection was raised: When [the Tabernacle] was dismantled for journeying consecrated things became invalid since they were outside [the Tabernacle]; none the less persons suffering from an issue and lepers were to be put outside their respective bounds.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The leper was excluded from the whole camp, while those afflicted with issues were permitted to remain in the camp of Israel but were excluded from the Sanctuary proper and from the Levite encampment.');">¹⁴</span>

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