Numbers 31:24

24 And ye shall wash your clothes in the seventh day, and ye shall be cleansed; and afterward ye shall enter into the tents. (And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and then ye shall be clean; and afterward ye can return to the tents.)

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 The gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and tin, and lead,

23 and all thing that may pass by (the) flame, shall be purged by fire; soothly whatever thing may not suffer fire, shall be hallowed with the water of cleansing. (and all the things that can pass through the flame, shall be purified by fire; but whatever thing cannot survive the flame, shall be made clean with the water of cleansing, or of purification.)

24 And ye shall wash your clothes in the seventh day, and ye shall be cleansed; and afterward ye shall enter into the tents. (And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and then ye shall be clean; and afterward ye can return to the tents.)

25 And the Lord said to Moses,

26 Take ye the sum, or the number, of those things that be taken, from man till to beast, thou, and Eleazar, [the] priest, and all the princes of the common people.