Numbers 31:24
24 On the seventh day wash your clothes and you will be clean. Then you may come into the camp."
Other Translations of Numbers 31:24
King James Version
24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
English Standard Version
24 You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp."
The Message
24 On the seventh day scrub your clothes; you will be ritually clean. Then you can return to camp."
New King James Version
24 And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp."
New Living Translation
24 On the seventh day you must wash your clothes and be purified. Then you may return to the camp."
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 31:24
Commentary on Numbers 31:19-24
(Read Numbers 31:19-24)
The Israelites had to purify themselves according to the law, and to abide without the camp seven days, though they had not contracted any moral guilt, the war being just and lawful, and commanded by God. Thus God would preserve in their minds a dread and detestation of shedding blood. The spoil had been used by Midianites, and being now come into the possession of Israelites, it was fit that it should be purified.