Números 31:19

Purificación de combatientes y de prisioneros

19 »Todos los que hayan matado a alguien, o hayan tocado un cadáver, deberán quedarse fuera del campamento durante siete días. Al tercer día, y al séptimo, se purificarán ustedes y sus prisioneros.

Números 31:19 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:19

And do ye abide without the camp seven days.
&c.] Which was the time that anyone that touched a dead body remained unclean, ( Numbers 19:11 ) ,

whosoever hath killed any person;
as most of them if not all must have done; all the males of Midian that fell into their hands being slain by them, that were men grown:

and whosoever hath touched any slain;
as they must to strip them of their garments, and take their spoil from them:

purify both yourselves and your captives, on the third and on the
seventh day;
which were the days appointed for the purification of such that were polluted by touching dead bodies, ( Numbers 19:11 ) and their captives, which were the female little ones; (for as for the women, and males among the little ones, they were ordered to be slain;) though they were Heathens, yet inasmuch as they were to be for the service of the Israelites, and to be brought up in their religion, they were to be purified also; to which purpose is the note of Jarchi;

``not that the Gentiles receive uncleanness and need sprinkling, but as ye are the children of the covenant, so your captives, when they come into the covenant, and are defiled, need sprinkling.''

Números 31:19 In-Context

17 Maten a todos los niños, y también a todas las mujeres que hayan tenido relaciones sexuales,

18 pero quédense con todas las muchachas que jamás las hayan tenido.

19 »Todos los que hayan matado a alguien, o hayan tocado un cadáver, deberán quedarse fuera del campamento durante siete días. Al tercer día, y al séptimo, se purificarán ustedes y sus prisioneros.

20 También deberán purificar toda la ropa, y todo artículo de cuero, de pelo de cabra, o de madera».

21 El sacerdote Eleazar les dijo a los soldados que habían ido a la guerra: «Esto es lo que manda la ley que el SEÑOR le entregó a Moisés: