Numbers 31:24

24 You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; afterward you may come into the camp."

Numbers 31:24 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:24

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.

Numbers 31:24 In-Context

22 gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

23 everything that can withstand fire, shall be passed through fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water for purification; and whatever cannot withstand fire, shall be passed through the water.

24 You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; afterward you may come into the camp."

25 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

26 "You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the ancestral houses of the congregation make an inventory of the booty captured, both human and animal.