Numbers 31:20

20 Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.”

Numbers 31:20 in Other Translations

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.

20 You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood."

20 Purify all your clothing, too, and everything made of leather, goat hair, or wood.”

20 Purify every piece of clothing and every utensil - everything made of leather, goat hair, or wood."

20 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.

20 Do the same for all the clothes and everything made of leather, goats' hair, or wood."

20 Also purify everything: garments, leather goods, things made of goat hair, and every article of wood."

20 Make all of your clothes pure and clean. Everything that is made out of leather, goat hair or wood must be made pure."

Numbers 31:20 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:20

And purify all your raiment
By washing them; and this may intend not so much their own wearing apparel, as the raiment they took off of the dead bodies of the Midianites, since the person that touched a dead body was not obliged to wash his clothes, but the clean person that sprinkled the water of purification on him, ( Numbers 19:19 Numbers 19:21 ) , some render the words, "purify yourselves" ^F4, "together with the raiment" which seems to be the best version of them:

and all that is made of skins;
of any sort of creatures, as the covering of tents, shoes, bottles see ( Leviticus 11:32 )

and all work of goats' hair;
such as the covering of tents was also made of: and this, according to Jarchi and other Jewish writers ^F5 includes vessels made of the horns, hoofs, and bones of these creatures: and all things made of wood; as beds, cups, dishes all which might be purified by washing; see ( Leviticus 15:12 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (wajxtt) "purgatote vos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; Vid. L'Empereur, Not. ad Kimchii (odoiporia) , p. 130.
F5 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Celim, c. 2. sect. 1.

Numbers 31:20 In-Context

18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

19 “Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives.

20 Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.”

21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is what is required by the law that the LORD gave Moses:

22 Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 19:19
• 2. S Leviticus 11:32