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Numbers 31:20
20You must also make these things clean: any clothes or anything made from leather, wool or wood.’
Numbers 31:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.
- New International Version (NIV)Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Purify every garment, everything made of leather, everything woven of goats’ hair, and everything made of wood.”
Context of Numbers 31:20
18But as for the girls who have not had sex with a man, you may keep them for yourselves.’ 19Moses said, ‘Any soldier who has killed someone, or who has touched a dead body is unclean. He must stay outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and on the seventh day, you must wash yourselves to become clean. You must do the same thing to your Midianite prisoners. You must also make these things clean: any clothes or anything made from leather, wool or wood.’ 21Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers, ‘This is the rule that the Lord told Moses: 22You must put all the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, and other metals in a fire.
Read all of Numbers 31Numbers 31:20 word by word
וְכָל־בֶּ֧גֶד וְכָל־כְּלִי־ע֛וֹר וְכָל־מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה עִזִּ֖ים וְכָל־כְּלִי־עֵ֑ץ תִּתְחַטָּֽאוּ׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Numbers 31:20
- Numbers 19:14This is the rule when a person dies in a tent. Any person who is in the tent will not be clean for seven days.
- Genesis 35:2So Jacob told the people in his house and everyone who was with him, ‘Throw out all the foreign idols that you have with you. Wash your body very well and put on clean clothes.
- Exodus 19:10Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go to the people. Make them ready to meet with me. Today and tomorrow they must wash their clothes.
Commentaries on Numbers 31:20
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 19-24Verses 19-24 The Israelites had to purify themselves according to the law, and to abide without the camp seven days, though they had not contracted any moral guilt, the war being just and lawful, and commanded by God. Thus God would preserve in their minds a dread and detestation of shedding blood. The spoil had been used by Midianites, and being now come into the possession of Israelites, it was fit that it should be purified.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-24Israelite soldiers who touched dead bodies became ceremonially unclean (ritually impure). They had to go through the required purification rituals. These rituals were routine, but they were important. They also had to purify their equipment (see 5:1–4; 19:1–22).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 19-2419-24. abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person ... purify both yourselves and your captives--Though the Israelites had taken the field in obedience to the command of God, they had become defiled by contact with the dead. A process of purification was to be undergone, as the law required (Le 15:13; Nu 19:9-12), and this purifying ceremony was extended to dress, houses, tents, to everything on which a dead body had lain, which…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Numbers 31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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