The LORD struck Uzziah with a dreaded skin disease that stayed with him the rest of his life. He lived in a separate house, relieved of all duties, while his son Jotham governed the country.

You remain unclean as long as you have the disease, and you must live outside the camp, away from others.

"Command the people of Israel to expel from the camp everyone with a dreaded skin disease or a bodily discharge and everyone who is unclean by contact with a corpse.

Send all these ritually unclean people out, so that they will not defile the camp, where I live among my people."

Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought back in.

Four men who were suffering from a dreaded skin disease were outside the gates of Samaria, and they said to each other, "Why should we wait here until we die?