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Numbers 31:24

You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”

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  • WEB World English Bible

    You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”

  • KJV King James Version

    And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye may come into the camp.'

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Cross-references (4)

Passages linked to Numbers 31:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 11:25 Whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.
  • Leviticus 14:9 It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean.
  • Leviticus 15:13 “ ‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
  • Numbers 19:19 The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

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Explain this verse (2 sources)

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And divide the prey into two parts,.... Into two…

And divide the prey into two parts,.... Into two equal parts, both the number of the people and of the cattle, when taken:

between them that took the war upon them, and went out to battle; the soldiers; and by this it appears that they went voluntarily and cheerfully:

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and between all the congregation; so that the part of them that went to battle, and of those that stayed in the camp, were alike, and which in process of time became a statute and ordinance, Sa1 30:24.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 24. Wash your clothes — According to the law.…

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