Numbers 31:19
in Numbers 31All 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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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 verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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
remain outside the camp for seven days
on Numbers 31:19-25
Victory exempts no one from the law of the dead. Whoever killed or touched a body waits outside seven days and is purified with "the water of purification", the red heifer rite of chapter 19.
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 wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַתֶּ֗ם | veatem | and you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| חֲנ֛וּ | chanu | encamp | H2583 → | 143 times |
| מִח֥וּץ | michutz | from [the] outside | H2351 → | 164 times |
| לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖ה | lamachaneh | of the camp | H4264 → | 215 times |
| שִׁבְעַ֣ת | shivat | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| יָמִ֑ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| כֹּל֩ | kol | any | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הֹרֵ֨ג | horeg | [one who] has killed | H2026 → | 167 times |
| נֶ֜פֶשׁ | nefesh | anyone | H5315 → | 754 times |
| וְכֹ֣ל׀ | vekhol | and any | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| נֹגֵ֣עַ | nogea' | [one who] has touched | H5060 → | 150 times |
| בֶּֽחָלָ֗ל | bechalal | <in> the [one] slain | H2491 → | 94 times |
| תִּֽתְחַטְּא֞וּ | titchateu | you will purify yourselves | H2398 → | 238 times |
| בַּיּ֤וֹם | baiyom | on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַשְּׁלִישִׁי֙ | hashelishi | <the> third | H7992 → | 107 times |
| וּבַיּ֣וֹם | uvaiyom | and on the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י | hashevii | <the> seventh | H7637 → | 98 times |
| אַתֶּ֖ם | ʾatem | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| וּשְׁבִיכֶֽם׃ | ushevikhem | and captive[s] your | H7628 → | 49 times |
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.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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 22:8but 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…
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?
- 1 Kings 5:3
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
- Leviticus 13:46
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About Numbers
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.