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Numbers 31:19

Purity

17 So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,

18 but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.

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

21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses:

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BSB
All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.
KJV
And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
WEB
“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.
ASV
And encamp ye without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives.
DARBY
And encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever hath killed a person, and whoever hath touched any slain; ye shall purify yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
BLB
And as for you⁺, remain outside of the camp seven days; anyone who kills a soul and anyone who touches the slain—you⁺ shall cleanse yourselves from sin, you⁺ and your⁺ captives, on the third day and on the seventh day.
ÅB
Og så skal dere holde dere utenfor leiren i syv dager! Enhver av dere som har slått noen ihjel, og enhver som har rørt ved en som er slått ihjel, skal rense seg på den tredje og på den syvende dag - både dere og deres fanger .
OTB
Leir utenfor leiren i syv dager; hver den som har drept en person og hver den som har rørt ved en drept, må rense seg selv og deres fanger på den tredje og den syvende dagen.
B1930
Og så skal I holde eder utenfor leiren i syv dager! Enhver av eder som har slått nogen ihjel, og enhver som har rørt ved en som er slått ihjel, skal rense sig på den tredje og på den syvende dag - både I og eders fanger .

Study notes (Tyndale)

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  • Numbers 5:2

    “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.

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  • Numbers 19:11–22

    Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.

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  • 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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