Numbers 31:20

You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”

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In The King James Version

And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.

In Context

19“Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

21Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses.

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Cross References

Genesis 35:2Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are amongst you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

Numbers 19:14“This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:22“Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.”

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 →

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