It has been said that Bible verses often have several meanings. There is the obvious physical meaning - something happened at a certain time like God told the Israelites something. Then there are perhaps general principle meanings such as the parable of the talents referring to us using what God has given us, then there are any number of Spiritual meanings that might relate to Israel, the Church or both. The tricky thing and that which requires prayer and study is what meanings are present in what verses.
The verses about purity in the camp are a good example. There were perhaps physical reasons for these laws, something that God did to protect the Israelites from poor health or death but yet at the same time, God is often very strong when he gives these laws and could, presumably, easily have said, "you should do these to avoid illness". Perhaps God knows us too well and realises that if He simply said, "you should do it" then loads of people would think that it would be OK, the human principle of, "what does God know?" so it is easier to promote punishment as a way of people keeping good health. But for us today, there are lots of lessons we can learn about our own purity which is spiritual fundamentally and which teaches us that impurity is infectious and requires direct action to deal with. I'm not sure whether each type of infection mentioned relates to a certain specific issue (i.e. semen discharge relates to sexual impurity) but it is worth studying these things.
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