You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”
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You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”
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And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.
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And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood, ye shall purify.'
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to Numbers 31:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
- Exodus 19:10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
- Numbers 19:14-16 “This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. Every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean. “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
- Numbers 19:22 “Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain All your raiment, to wit, your spoil and prey.…
All your raiment, to wit, your spoil and prey. See Lev 8:15; 14:49. All these things had contracted some ceremonial uncleanness, either from the dead bodies which wore them, or the tents or houses where they were, in which such dead bodies lay, or from the touch of the Israelitish soldiers, who were legally defiled by the slaughters they made.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the…
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead. These are excepted, and, though unclean, are not to be purified by washing, but in another way, by fire, as follows; all these metals were well known in those early times, and were made use of for instruments and vessels of various sorts.
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead. These are excepted, and, though unclean, are not to be purified by washing, but in another way, by fire, as follows; all these metals were well known in those early times, and were made use of for instruments and vessels of various sorts.
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num 31:23Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire,.... Either through the smoke of the fire, and so be purified by suffumigation; or be put into the fire itself, where though they might be melted as the above things, yet not consumed as raiment, and vessels of skins, goats' hair, and wood, would be:
and it shall be clean; accounted so:
nevertheless, it shall be purified with the water of separation; with the water mixed with the ashes of the red heifer burnt, and sprinkled on it; see Num 19:9.
and all that abideth not the fire; without being consumed, as whatsoever is of wood, &c.
ye shall make go through the water; dip them in it, and rinse them there with a quantity sufficient; which the Targum of Jonathan says is forty seahs of water.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Your raiment - Namely, your spoil and prey. All…
Your raiment - Namely, your spoil and prey. All work - All which had contracted some ceremonial uncleanness either from the dead bodies which wore them, or the tents or houses where they were, in which such dead bodies lay, or from the touch of the Israelitish soldiers, who were legally defiled by the slaughters they made.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 20-23. All raiment — Or cloth for any use.…
20-23. All raiment — Or cloth for any use. Num_4:6-7, notes. Every thing that could not bear the fire was to be drawn through water.
The metals were to be passed through the fire and then to be sprinkled with the water of separation. Fire and water as purifiers are symbols of spiritual sanctification. Mat_3:11; Psa_66:10; Psa_66:12; Joh_3:5, notes.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. all that is made of skin] such as…
20. all that is made of skin] such as sandals, saddles, coverings for packages &c.
work of goats’ hair] such as tent-coverings (Exo_25:4) and bed-coverings (1Sa_19:13; 1Sa_19:16).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Purify all your raiment, and all that is made.…
Purify all your raiment, and all that is made. Literally, "every vessel" (yliK). This was in accordance with the principle laid down in Nu 19 that everything which had come into contact with a corpse needed purifying.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.