Numbers 31:20 · King James Version
Numbers 31:20 in the Original Hebrew
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Numbers 31:20 in Other Translations
| 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. |
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| WEB | As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves.” |
| 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.’ |
| WBT | And purify all [your] raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood. |
| DBY | And every garment, and every vessel of skin, and all work of goat's hair, and every utensil of wood shall ye purify. |
Commentary on Numbers 31:20
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Numbers 31:19–24
abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person . . . purify both yourselves and your captives--Though the Israelites had taken the field in obedience to the command of God, they had become defiled by contact with the dead. A process of purification was to be undergone, as the law required (Lev 15:13; Num 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. This became a standing ordinance in all time coming (Lev 6:28; Lev 11:33; Lev 15:12).
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Questions about Numbers 31:20
What does Numbers 31:20 say?
Numbers 31:20 in the King James Version reads: “And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.” Read it in the full context of Numbers 31, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Numbers 31:20 found in the Bible?
Numbers 31:20 is in the book of Numbers, chapter 31, verse 20, in the Old Testament.
What Bible translation is Numbers 31:20 shown in?
This is the King James Version (KJV), a public-domain translation. You can compare how other translations render Numbers 31:20 in the table on this page.
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead. These are excepted, and, though unclean, are not to be purified by washing, but in another way, by fire, as follows; all these metals were well known in those early times, and were made use of for instruments and vessels of various sorts.
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead. These are excepted, and, though unclean, are not to be purified by washing, but in another way, by fire, as follows; all these metals were well known in those early times, and were made use of for instruments and vessels of various sorts.
Numbers 31:23
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num 31:23Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire,.... Either through the smoke of the fire, and so be purified by suffumigation; or be put into the fire itself, where though they might be melted as the above things, yet not consumed as raiment, and vessels of skins, goats' hair, and wood, would be:
and it shall be clean; accounted so:
nevertheless, it shall be purified with the water of separation; with the water mixed with the ashes of the red heifer burnt, and sprinkled on it; see Num 19:9.
and all that abideth not the fire; without being consumed, as whatsoever is of wood, &c.
ye shall make go through the water; dip them in it, and rinse them there with a quantity sufficient; which the Targum of Jonathan says is forty seahs of water.