Numbers 31:20

And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of wood.”

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KJV

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

ASV

And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood, ye shall purify yourselves.

YLT

and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats' hair , and every wooden vessel, ye yourselves cleanse.'

DBT

And every garment, and every vessel of skin, and all work of goat's hair, and every utensil of wood shall ye purify.

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And purify all your raiment,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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A process of purification was to be undergone, as the law required (Le 15:13; Nu 19:9-12), and this purifying ceremony was extended to dress, houses, tents, to everything on which a dead body had lain, which had been touched by the blood-stained hands of the Israelitish warriors, or which had been the property of idolaters.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Numbers 19:15
and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.
Exodus 19:10
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
Numbers 19:22
Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
Numbers 19:14–16
This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
Exodus 26:7
You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.
Numbers 8:7
This is what you must do to cleanse them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.
1 Chronicles 22:8
but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My Name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.

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About this book

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Exodus 19:10
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
leads to
- Leviticus 15:5
  Anyone who touches his bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 10:22
  let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
- Leviticus 11:44–45
  For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
- Genesis 35:2
  So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- Leviticus 11:25
  and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.
Through
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
leads to
- Exodus 19:14
  When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
- Exodus 19:10
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes
- Ezekiel 18:31
  Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

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