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Numbers 31:24

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.

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."
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."
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 Moises and Eleazar, preest, and alle the princes of the synagoge, yeden out in to the comyng of hem, with out the castels, `that is, of the tabernacle. 14 And Moises was wrooth to the princes of the oost, to tribunes, and centuriouns, that camen fro batel; and he seide, Whi reserueden ye wymmen? 16 whether it be not these that disseyueden the sones of Israel, at the suggestioun of Balaam, and maden you to do trespas ayens the Lord, on the synne of Phegor, wherfor also the puple was slayn? 17 And therfor sle ye alle men, what euer thing is of male kynde, and litle children; and strangle ye the wymmen that knew men fleischli; 18 forsothe reserue ye to you damesels, and alle wymmen virgyns, 19 and dwelle ye with out the castels in seuene daies. He that sleeth a man, ether touchith a slayn man, schal be clensid in the thridde and the seuenthe dai; 20 and of al the pray, whether it is clooth, ether vessel, and ony thing maad redi in to thingis perteynynge to vss, of the skynnys and heeris of geet, and `of tre, it schal be clensid. 21 And Eleazar, preest, spak thus to the men of the oost that fouyten, This is the comaundement of the lawe, which the Lord comaundide to Moises, 22 The gold, and siluer, and bras, and yrun, and tiyn, and leed, and al thing that may passe by flawme, schal be purgid bi fier; 23 sotheli what euer thing may not suffre fier, schal be halewid bi the watir of clensyng.

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 Batuel answeriden, The word is gon out of the Lord; we moun not speke ony other thing with thee without his plesaunce.
Genesis 28:5
And whanne Ysaac hadde left hym, he yede forth, and cam in to Mesopotanye of Sirie, to Laban, the sone of Batuel of Sirie, the brother of Rebecca, his modir.
Genesis 31:10
For aftir that the tyme of conseyuyng of sheep cam, Y reiside myn iyen, and seiy in sleep malis dyuerse, and spotti, and of dyuerse colouris, stiynge on femalis.
Genesis 31:14
And Rachel and Lya answeriden, Wher we han ony thing residue in the catels, and eritage of oure fadir?
Genesis 31:15
Wher he `arettide not vs as aliens, and selde, and eet oure prijs?
Genesis 31:17
Forsothe Jacob roos, and puttide hise fre children and wyues on camels, and yede forth;
Genesis 31:29
And now sotheli myn hond mai yelde yuel to thee, but the God of thi fadir seide to me yisterdai, Be war that thou speke not ony harder thing with Jacob.
Genesis 31:42
If God of my fadir Abraham, and the drede of Isaac hadde not helpid me, perauenture now thou haddist left me nakid; the Lord bihelde my turmentyng and the traueyl of myn hondis, and repreuyde thee yistirdai.
Genesis 40:5
bi couenable expownyng to hem.
Genesis 41:1
Aftir twei yeer Farao seiy a dreem; he gesside that he stood on a flood,

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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