Leviticus 16:28

And whoever will have burned them shall wash his clothes and flesh with water, and so he shall enter into the camp.

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In The King James Version

And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

In Context

27But the calf and the he-goat, which were immolated for sin, and whose blood was brought into the Sanctuary to complete the expiation, these shall be carried outside the camp and be burned with fire: as with their skins, so also with their flesh and dung.

29And this shall be to you an everlasting ordinance. In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and you shall do no work, neither someone native born, nor the newcomer who sojourns among you.

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:24And whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be defiled, and he shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:40And whoever will have eaten or carried anything of these shall wash his clothes, and he shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 16:26Yet truly, he who has sent away the emissary goat shall wash his clothes and his body with water, and so he shall enter into the camp.

Numbers 19:7And then finally, having washed his garments and his body, he shall enter into the camp, and he shall be deeply stained until evening.

Numbers 19:10And when he who had carried the ashes of the cow will have washed his garments, he shall be unclean until evening. The sons of Israel, and the newcomers who live among them, shall have this as a holy and perpetual right.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 16:21-29

20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not… Read the whole commentary →

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