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Darby's French Translation

Nombres 31:23

tout ce qui peut supporter le feu, vous le ferez passer par le feu, et ce sera pur; seulement, on le purifiera avec l'eau de séparation; et tout ce qui ne peut pas supporter le feu, vous le ferez passer par l'eau.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Purification;   Sanitation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fire;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Brass, or Copper;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Fire;   Iron;   Metals;   Silver;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jericho;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Purity-Purification;   Water;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Red Heifer;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eleazar ;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for June 12;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Vous le ferez passer par le feu, et il sera pur; toutefois on le purifiera avec l'eau de purification. Mais tout ce qui ne va pas au feu, vous le ferez passer dans l'eau.
Louis Segond (1910)
tout objet qui peut aller au feu, vous le ferez passer par le feu pour le rendre pur. Mais c'est par l'eau de purification que sera purifié tout ce qui ne peut aller au feu; vous le ferez passer dans l'eau.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Tout ce qui peut passer par le feu, vous le ferez passer par le feu, et il sera net; seulement on le purifiera avec l'eau d'aspersion; mais vous ferez passer par l'eau toutes les choses qui ne passent point par le feu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

abide: Isaiah 43:2, Zechariah 13:9, Malachi 2:2, Malachi 2:3, Matthew 3:11, 1 Corinthians 3:13, 1 Peter 1:7, 1 Peter 4:12, Revelation 3:18

it shall be purified: Numbers 8:7, Numbers 19:9, Numbers 19:17

ye shall make: Leviticus 11:32, Leviticus 15:17, Ephesians 5:26, Titus 3:5, Titus 3:6, 1 Peter 3:21

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire,.... Either through the smoke of the fire, and so be purified by suffumigation; or be put into the fire itself, where though they might be melted as the above things, yet not consumed as raiment, and vessels of skins, goats' hair, and wood, would be:

and it shall be clean; accounted so:

nevertheless, it shall be purified with the water of separation; with the water mixed with the ashes of the red heifer burnt, and sprinkled on it; see Numbers 19:9

and all that abideth not the fire; without being consumed, as whatsoever is of wood, c.

ye shall make go through the water dip them in it, and rinse them there with a quantity sufficient; which the Targum of Jonathan says is forty seahs of water.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 31:23. The water of separation — The water in which the ashes of the red heifer were mingled; Numbers 8:7; Numbers 8:7; "Numbers 19:2", &c. Garments, whether of cloth or skins, were to be washed. Gold, silver, brass, iron, tin, and lead, to pass through the fire, probably to be melted down.


 
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