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Numbers 31:20

Purity

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

19 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.

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:

22 Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

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BSB
And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of wood.”
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.
WEB
You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, 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.
DARBY
And every garment, and every vessel of skin, and all work of goat's hair, and every utensil of wood shall ye purify.
BLB
And every garment, and everything made of leather, and everything woven of goats’ [hair], and every wood vessel, you⁺ shall cleanse yourselves from sin.”
ÅB
Og alle klær og alt som er gjort av skinn eller av geitehår, og alle trekar skal dere rense.
OTB
Rens hvert plagg, hver gjenstand av skinn, alt laget av geitehår, og hver treartikkel."
B1930
Og alle klær og alt som er gjort av skinn eller av gjetehår, og alle trekar skal I rense.

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Cross references

  • 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.

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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

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  • 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,

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  • Numbers 19:22

    Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”

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