Numbers 31:19
“Encamp outside of the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, cleanse sin ·err (the standard goal)· from yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
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In The King James Version
In Context
18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Cross References
Numbers 5:2+ 5:2. Num 5:2 (Num 5:1-4) (#3.238): To send anyone who is unclean out of the camp and from the Holy Presence, that is the Sanctuary “Enjoin the children of Israel [God prevails] that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.
Numbers 19:12He shall cleanse sin ·err (the standard goal)· from himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he does not cleanse sin ·err (the standard goal)· from himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
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 →