4Q274 1 i-שילוח טמאים מה'מחנה' על פי מגילת המקדש כתבי יוסף בן מתתיהו ו

4Q274 1 i addresses the removal of impure individuals from inhabited areas and the repercussions of contact with various types of impure individuals. The text asserts (like 11QTa) that only lepers need to be excluded from the cities of Israel while afflicted. Other impurity bearers are not removed from the cities while discharging, but are isolated within them, according to the idea of “graded purification” . Josephus also claims that only lepers and zavim are to be distanced from the cities. This difference between lepers and other impure individuals ensues from an attempt to resolve the inconsistency between disparate scriptural traditions concerning the expulsion of different impurity bearers from the camp.