Números 31:20

20 Y purificaréis todo vestido, todo artículo de cuero y toda obra de pelo de cabra y todo objeto de madera.

Números 31:20 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:20

And purify all your raiment
By washing them; and this may intend not so much their own wearing apparel, as the raiment they took off of the dead bodies of the Midianites, since the person that touched a dead body was not obliged to wash his clothes, but the clean person that sprinkled the water of purification on him, ( Numbers 19:19 Numbers 19:21 ) , some render the words, "purify yourselves" ^F4, "together with the raiment" which seems to be the best version of them:

and all that is made of skins;
of any sort of creatures, as the covering of tents, shoes, bottles see ( Leviticus 11:32 )

and all work of goats' hair;
such as the covering of tents was also made of: and this, according to Jarchi and other Jewish writers ^F5 includes vessels made of the horns, hoofs, and bones of these creatures: and all things made of wood; as beds, cups, dishes all which might be purified by washing; see ( Leviticus 15:12 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (wajxtt) "purgatote vos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; Vid. L'Empereur, Not. ad Kimchii (odoiporia) , p. 130.
F5 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Celim, c. 2. sect. 1.

Números 31:20 In-Context

18 Pero a todas las jóvenes que no hayan conocido varón acostándose con él, las dejaréis con vida para vosotros.

19 Y vosotros, acampad fuera del campamento por siete días; todo el que haya matado a una persona y todo el que haya tocado a un muerto, purificaos, vosotros y vuestros cautivos, el tercero y el séptimo día.

20 Y purificaréis todo vestido, todo artículo de cuero y toda obra de pelo de cabra y todo objeto de madera.

21 Entonces el sacerdote Eleazar dijo a los hombres de guerra que habían ido a la batalla: Este es el estatuto de la ley que el SEÑOR ha ordenado a Moisés:

22 sólo el oro, la plata, el bronce, el hierro, el estaño y el plomo,