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Contemporary English Version

Numbers 31:24

Wash your clothes on the seventh day, and after that, you will be clean and may return to the camp."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Purification;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Defilement-Cleansing;   Washing;   Water;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eleazar ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Slave;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Priestly Code;   Red Heifer;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.
King James Version
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
Lexham English Bible
And you will wash your garments on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you will come into the camp."
English Standard Version
You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp."
New Century Version
On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may come into the camp."
New English Translation
You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.'"
Amplified Bible
"And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp."
New American Standard Bible
"And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and you will be clean; and afterward you may enter the camp."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shal wash also your clothes the seuenth day, and ye shalbe cleane: and afterward ye shal come into the Hoste.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may enter the camp."
Complete Jewish Bible
On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean; after that you may enter the camp."
Darby Translation
And ye shall wash your garments on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean; and afterwards ye may come into the camp.
Easy-to-Read Version
On the seventh day you must wash all of your clothes. Then you will be pure. After that you can come into camp."
George Lamsa Translation
And you must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean, and afterward you shall come into the camp.
Good News Translation
On the seventh day you must wash your clothes; then you will be ritually clean and will be permitted to enter the camp."
Christian Standard Bible®
On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”
Literal Translation
And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. And afterwards you shall come into the camp.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and shal washe yor clothes vpon the seuenth daye. and the shall ye be cleane. After that shall ye come in to the hooste.
American Standard Version
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean; and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
Bible in Basic English
And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And washe your clothes the seuenth day, and ye shalbe cleane, and afterwarde come into the hoast.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye may come into the camp.'
King James Version (1611)
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seuenth day, and ye shalbe cleane, and afterward yee shall come into the campe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And on the seventh day ye shall wash your garments, and be clean; and afterwards ye shall come into the camp.
English Revised Version
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
Berean Standard Bible
On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye schulen waische youre clothis in the seuenthe dai, and ye schulen be clensid; and aftirward ye schulen entre in to the castels `of the tabernacle.
Young's Literal Translation
and ye have washed your garments on the seventh day, and have been clean, and afterwards ye come in unto the camp.'
Update Bible Version
And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.
Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
World English Bible
You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.
New King James Version
And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp."
New Living Translation
On the seventh day you must wash your clothes and be purified. Then you may return to the camp."
New Life Bible
You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be clean. Then you may come among the tents."
New Revised Standard
You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; afterward you may come into the camp."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and be clean, - and after-wards, shall ye come into the camp.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall wash your garments the seventh day, and being purified, you shall afterwards enter into the camp.
Revised Standard Version
You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may enter the camp."

Contextual Overview

14 Moses became angry with the army commanders 15 and said, "I can't believe you let the women live! 16 They are the ones who followed Balaam's advice and invited our people to worship the god Baal Peor. That's why the Lord punished us by killing so many of our people. 17 You must put to death every boy and all the women who have ever had sex. 18 But do not kill the young women who have never had sex. You may keep them for yourselves." 19 Then Moses said to the soldiers, "If you killed anyone or touched a dead body, you are unclean and have to stay outside the camp for seven days. On the third and seventh days, you must go through a ceremony to make yourselves and your captives clean. 20 Then wash your clothes and anything made from animal skin, goat's hair, or wood." 21Eleazar then explained, "If you need to purify something that won't burn, such as gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead, you must first place it in a hot fire. After you take it out, sprinkle it with the water that purifies. Everything else should only be sprinkled with the water. Do all of this, just as the Lord commanded Moses. 24 Wash your clothes on the seventh day, and after that, you will be clean and may return to the camp."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 19:19, Leviticus 11:25, Leviticus 14:9, Leviticus 15:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - clean Exodus 19:10 - wash Numbers 19:9 - a water of separation 1 Chronicles 22:8 - Thou hast shed

Cross-References

Genesis 24:50
Laban and Bethuel answered, "The Lord has done this. We have no choice in the matter.
Genesis 28:5
Isaac then sent Jacob to stay with Rebekah's brother Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.
Genesis 31:10
Once, when the flocks were mating, I dreamed that all the rams were either spotted or speckled.
Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Leah said to Jacob: There's nothing left for us to inherit from our father.
Genesis 31:15
He treats us like foreigners and has even cheated us out of the bride price that should have been ours.
Genesis 31:17
Then Jacob, his wives, and his children got on camels and left
Genesis 31:29
I could easily hurt you, but the God your father worshiped has warned me not to make any threats or promises.
Genesis 31:42
If the fearsome God worshiped by Abraham and my father Isaac had not been on my side, you would have sent me away without a thing. But God saw my hard work, and he knew the trouble I was in, so he helped me. Then last night he told you how wrong you were.
Genesis 40:5
One night each of the two men had a dream, but their dreams had different meanings.
Genesis 41:1
Two years later the king of Egypt dreamed he was standing beside the Nile River.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day,.... As the leper did, Leviticus 14:9:

and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp; into the camp of Israel, into the camp of the Levites, and into the camp of God, the tabernacle.


 
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