Numbers 31:24

24 You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall 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 only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23 everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water of impurity; and whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water.
24 You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."
25 The LORD said to Moses,
26 "Take the count of the booty that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Elea'zar the priest and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation;
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