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Numbers 31:19

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All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And encamp ye without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives.

KJV

And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

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This verse in Numbers 31

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

A process of purification was to be undergone, as the law required (Le 15:13; Nu 19:9-12), and this purifying ceremony was extended to dress, houses, tents, to everything on which a dead body had lain, which had been touched by the blood-stained hands of the Israelitish warriors, or which had been the property of idolaters.

This site's exposition

abide without the camp seven days

on Numbers 31:19-25

Winning the battle exempts no one from the law of the dead. Every man who killed or touched a body waits outside seven days and is purified on the third day and the seventh with the water of separation, which is the red heifer ordinance of chapter 19 put to work. Eleazar rather than Moses states the law here, and he adds a rule chapter 19 did not give, that metal able to bear fire goes through fire and what cannot bear it goes through water. The captives are purified along with the soldiers.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And do ye abide without the camp seven days.....

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאַתֶּ֗םand you

    veatemH859 →1094 times

  • חֲנ֛וּencamp

    chanuH2583 →143 times

  • מִח֥וּץfrom [the] outside

    michutzH2351 →164 times

  • לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖הof the camp

    lamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • שִׁבְעַ֣תseven

    shivatH7651 →394 times

  • יָמִ֑יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • כֹּל֩any

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • הֹרֵ֨ג[one who] has killed

    horegH2026 →167 times

  • נֶ֜פֶשׁanyone

    nefeshH5315 →754 times

  • וְכֹ֣ל׀and any

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • נֹגֵ֣עַ[one who] has touched

    nogea'H5060 →150 times

  • בֶּֽחָלָ֗ל<in> the [one] slain

    bechalalH2491 →94 times

  • תִּֽתְחַטְּא֞וּyou will purify yourselves

    titchateuH2398 →238 times

  • בַּיּ֤וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַשְּׁלִישִׁי֙<the> third

    hashelishiH7992 →107 times

  • וּבַיּ֣וֹםand on the day

    uvaiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י<the> seventh

    hasheviiH7637 →98 times

  • אַתֶּ֖םyou

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • וּשְׁבִיכֶֽם׃and captive[s] your

    ushevikhemH7628 →49 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

8 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 19:11Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.9 worksNumbers 19:12He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.6 worksNumbers 19:16Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.4 worksNumbers 5:2“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.3 worksJoshua 6:23So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.3 works1 Chronicles 22:8but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My Name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 19:19The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.2 worksGenesis 22:4On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 22:8

    but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My Name because you have shed so much…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 5:3

      “As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD…

    • 1 Chronicles 28:3

      but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has spilled blood.’

    • 1 Chronicles 17:4–10

      “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.

    • 2 Samuel 7:5–11

      “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?

  • Through

    Numbers 5:2

    “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 13:46

      As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

    • Leviticus 21:1

      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,

    • Numbers 12:14

      But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days;…

    • Numbers 9:6–10

      But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 31 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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