Numbers 31:21
19 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.
20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.
And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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:
- KJV
- And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
- WEB
- Eleazar 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.
- ASV
- And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war that went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses:
- DARBY
- And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war that had gone to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
- BLB
- And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to the battle, “This [is] the ordinance of the law that YHWH has commanded Moses:
- ÅB
- Og Eleasar, presten, sa til stridsmennene som hadde vært med i krigen: Dette er det lovbud som Herren har gitt Moses:
- OTB
- Så sa Eleasar, presten, til soldatene som hadde gått til krig: "Dette er lovens forskrift som Herren befalte Moses:
- B1930
- Og Eleasar, presten, sa til stridsmennene som hadde vært med i krigen: Dette er det lovbud som Herren har gitt Moses:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 30:16
These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.
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