Lexicon :: Strong's H4264 - maḥănê

When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he called that place Mahanaim.[fn]

Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; he divided the people with him into two camps, along with the flocks, herds, and camels.

“I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. Indeed, I crossed over the Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.

So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night.

So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession[fn] I met? ”

“To find favor with you, my lord,” he answered.

Horses and chariots went up with him; it was a very impressive procession.

Then the angel of God, who was going in front of the Israelite forces, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and stood behind them.

During the morning watch, the LORD looked down at the Egyptian forces from the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw the Egyptian forces into confusion.

So at evening quail came and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp.

On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a very loud blast from a ram’s horn, so that all the people in the camp shuddered.

“But burn the bull’s flesh, its hide, and its waste outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

When Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a sound of war in the camp.”

As he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became enraged and threw the tablets out of his hands, smashing them at the base of the mountain.

And Moses stood at the camp’s entrance and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.

Now Moses took a tent and pitched it outside the camp, at a distance from the camp; he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone who wanted to consult the LORD would go to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.

The LORD would speak with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend, then Moses would return to the camp. His assistant, the young man Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the inside of the tent.

After Moses gave an order, they sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “Let no man or woman make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the people stopped.

“all the rest of the bull ​— ​he must bring to a ceremonially clean place outside the camp to the ash heap, and must burn it on a wood fire. It is to be burned at the ash heap.

“Then he will bring the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

“Then he will take off his garments, put on other clothes, and bring the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.

He burned the bull with its hide, flesh, and waste outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

He burned the flesh and the hide outside the camp.

Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here and carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp.”

“He will remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

“who will go outside the camp and examine him. If the skin disease has disappeared from the afflicted person,[fn]

“The one who is to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; he is clean. Afterward he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

“The man who released the goat for an uninhabitable place is to wash his clothes and bathe his body with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

“Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox, sheep, or goat in the camp, or slaughters it outside the camp,

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was[fn] among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man.

“Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.

After Moses spoke to the Israelites, they brought the one who had cursed to the outside of the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

“The Israelites are to camp by their military divisions, each man with his encampment and under his banner.

“Judah’s military divisions will camp on the east side toward the sunrise under their banner. The leader of the descendants of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab.

“The total number in their military divisions who belong to Judah’s encampment is 186,400; they will move out first.

“The total number in their military divisions who belong to Reuben’s encampment is 151,450; they will move out second.

“The total in their military divisions who belong to Ephraim’s encampment number 108,100; they will move out third.

“The total number who belong to Dan’s encampment is 157,600; they are to move out last, with their banners.”

“Whenever the camp is about to move on, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the screening curtain, and cover the ark of the testimony with it.