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Complete Jewish Bible

Numbers 31:24

On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean; after that you may enter 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."
Contemporary English Version
Wash your clothes on the seventh day, and after that, you will be clean and may return to 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

13 (RY: ii, LY: iii) Moshe, El‘azar the cohen and all the community leaders went to meet them outside the camp. 14 But Moshe was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds coming in from the battlefield. 15 Moshe asked them, "You let the women live? 16 Why, these are the ones who — because of Bil‘am's advice — caused the people of Isra'el to rebel, breaking faith with Adonai in the P‘or incident, so that the plague broke out among Adonai 's community! 17 Now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has ever slept with a man. 18 But the young girls who have never slept with a man, keep alive for yourselves. 19 Pitch your tents outside the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed a person or touched the corpse of someone slain, purify yourselves on the third and seventh days, you and your captives. 20 Also purify every garment, whether of skin or goat's hair, and everything made of wood." 21 El‘azar the cohen said to the soldiers who had gone to the front, "This is the regulation from the Torah which Adonai has ordered Moshe. 22 Even though gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead

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
Lavan and B'tu'el replied, "Since this comes from Adonai , we can't say anything to you either bad or good.
Genesis 28:5
(vii) So Yitz'chak sent Ya‘akov away; and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Lavan, son of B'tu'el the Arami, the brother of Rivkah Ya‘akov's and ‘Esav's mother.
Genesis 31:10
Once, when the animals were mating, I had a dream: I looked up and there in front of me the male goats which mated with the females were streaked, speckled and mottled.
Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Le'ah answered him, "We no longer have any inheritance from our father's possessions;
Genesis 31:15
and he considers us foreigners, since he has sold us; moreover, he has consumed everything he received in exchange for us.
Genesis 31:17
(vi) Then Ya‘akov got up, put his sons and wives on the camels,
Genesis 31:29
I have it in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last night and said, ‘Be careful that you don't say anything to Ya‘akov, either good or bad.'
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Avraham, the one whom Yitz'chak fears, had not been on my side, by now you would certainly have already sent me away with nothing! God has seen how distressed I've been and how hard I've worked, and last night he passed judgment in my favor."
Genesis 40:5
One night the two of them, the king of Egypt's cupbearer and his baker, there in prison, both had dreams, each dream with its own meaning.
Genesis 41:1
At the end of two years, Pharaoh had a dream: 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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