Numbers 31:23
everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be cleansed from sin ·err (the standard goal)· with the water for impurity. All that does not withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
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In The King James Version
In Context
22however the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Cross References
Exodus 19:14Moses [Drawn out] went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
Leviticus 15:17Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.
Numbers 19:9“A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, + 19:9. Quoted in Heb 9:13 and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel [God prevails] for a water for impurity. It is a cleanzing for habitual sin ·missing the mark·.
Isaiah 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; 2 and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. 1 When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, 2 and flame will not scorch you. 1
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 →