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Numbers 31:20

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

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, Nu 19:19, some render the words, "purify yourselves" , "together with the raiment", &c.

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, &c. see Le 11:32and all work of goats' hair; such as the covering of tents was also made of: and this, according to Jarchi and other Jewish writers includes vessels made of the horns, hoofs, and bones of these creatures: and all things made of wood; as beds, cups, dishes, &c.

all which might be purified by washing; see Le 15:12. wajxtt "purgatote vos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; Vid. L'Empereur, Not. ad Kimchii odoiporia, p. 130. Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Celim, c.

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