Numbers 31:23
everything that can abide in the fire, you shall make to go through fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be sprinkled with the water of sprinkling; and whatever may not abide the fire you shall make to pass through water.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
22Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, iron, tin, and lead,
24And cleanse your garments on the seventh day; purify yourselves, and afterwards come into the camp.
Cross References
Exodus 19:14And Mosheh came down from the mountain unto the people, and prepared the people, and they made white their clothes.
Leviticus 15:17And any garment or any skin on which may be seed of copulation, shall be washed in water, and be unclean until evening.
Numbers 19:9And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be for the congregation of the children of Israel to keep, for the sprinkling with water; it is (a purification) for sin.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:14-25
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the… Read the whole commentary →