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New Century Version

Numbers 31:24

On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may come into 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 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."
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 Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went outside the camp to meet them. 14 Moses was angry with the army officers, the commanders over a thousand men, and those over a hundred men, who returned from war. 15 He asked them, "Why did you let the women live? 16 They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and turned the Israelites from the Lord at Peor. Then a terrible sickness struck the Lord 's people. 17 Kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations. 18 But save for yourselves the girls who have not had sexual relations with a man. 19 "All you men who killed anyone or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp for seven days. On the third and seventh days you and your captives must make yourselves clean. 20 You must clean all your clothes and anything made of leather, goat hair, or wood." 21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone to war, "These are the teachings that the Lord gave to Moses: 22 Put any gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or 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
Laban and Bethuel answered, "This is clearly from the Lord , and we cannot change what must happen.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob to Northwest Mesopotamia, to Laban the brother of Rebekah. Bethuel the Aramean was the father of Laban and Rebekah, and Rebekah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 31:10
"I had a dream during the season when the flocks were mating. I saw that the only male goats who were mating were streaked, speckled, or spotted.
Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Leah answered Jacob, "Our father has nothing to give us when he dies.
Genesis 31:15
He has treated us like strangers. He sold us to you, and then he spent all of the money you paid for us.
Genesis 31:17
So Jacob put his children and his wives on camels,
Genesis 31:29
I have the power to harm you, but last night the God of your father spoke to me and warned me not to say anything to you, good or bad.
Genesis 31:42
But the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac, was with me. Otherwise, you would have sent me away with nothing. But he saw the trouble I had and the hard work I did, and last night he corrected you."
Genesis 40:5
One night both the king's officer who served him wine and the baker had a dream. Each had his own dream with its own meaning.
Genesis 41:1
Two years later the king dreamed he was standing on the bank of 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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