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Geneva Bible

Numbers 31:24

Ye shal wash also your clothes the seuenth day, and ye shalbe cleane: and afterward ye shal come into the Hoste.

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."
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."
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

13 Then Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the princes of the Congregation went out of the campe to meete them. 14 And Moses was angry with the captaines of the hoste, with the captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, which came from the warre and battel. 15 And Moses sayde vnto them, What? haue ye saued all the women? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel through the counsell of Balaam to commit a trespasse against the Lorde, as concerning Peor, and there came a plague among the Congregation of the Lorde. 17 Now therefore, slay all the males among the children, and kill all the women that haue knowen man by carnall copulation. 18 But all the women children that haue not knowen carnall copulation, keepe aliue for your selues. 19 And ye shal remaine without the host seuen dayes, all that haue killed any person, and all that haue touched any dead, and purifie both your selues and your prisoners the third day and the seuenth. 20 Also ye shall purifie euery garment and all that is made of skins & al worke of goates heare, and all things made of wood. 21 And Eleazar ye Priest sayd vnto the men of warre, which went to the battel, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lorde commanded Moses, 22 As for gold, and siluer, brasse, yron, tynne, 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
Then answered Laban and Bethuel, and said, This thing is proceeded of the Lorde: we cannot therefore say vnto thee, neither euill nor good.
Genesis 28:5
Thus Izhak sent forth Iaakob, & he went to Padan Aram vnto Laban sonne of Bethuel the Aramite, brother to Rebekah, Iaakobs and Esaus mother.
Genesis 31:10
For in ramming time I lifted vp mine eyes and saw in a dreame, & beholde, ye hee goates leaped vpon the shee goates, that were partie coloured with litle and great spots spotted.
Genesis 31:14
Then answered Rahel and Leah, and sayde vnto him, Haue wee any more porcion and inheritance in our fathers house?
Genesis 31:15
Doeth not he count vs as strangers? for he hath solde vs, and hath eaten vp and consumed our money.
Genesis 31:17
Then Iaakob rose vp, and set his sonnes and his wiues vpon camels.
Genesis 31:29
I am able to do you euill: but the God of your father spake vnto me yesternight, saying, Take heed that thou speake not to Iaakob ought saue good.
Genesis 31:42
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Izhak had bene with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe emptie: but God behelde my tribulation, & the labour of mine hads, & rebuked thee yester night.
Genesis 40:5
And they both dreamed a dreame, eyther of them his dreame in one night, eche one according to the interpretation of his dreame, both the butler and the baker of the King of Egypt, which were bounde in the prison.
Genesis 41:1
And two yeeres after, Pharaoh also dreamed, and beholde, he stoode by a riuer,

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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