Numbers 31:13-24

Moses Orders Further Execution and Purification

Numbers 31:13-24

Moses Orders Further Execution and Purification

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And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company, go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp,
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and Moses is wroth against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the host of the battle.
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And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?
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lo, they--they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.
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`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;
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and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
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`And ye, encamp ye at the outside of the camp seven days--any who hath slain a person, and any who hath come against a pierced one, ye cleanse yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day--ye and your captives;
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and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats' hair , and every wooden vessel, ye yourselves cleanse.'
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And Eleazar the priest saith unto the men of the host who go in to battle, `This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses:
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only, the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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every thing which may go into fire, ye cause to pass over through fire, and it hath been clean; only, with the water of separation it is cleansed, and all that may not go into fire, ye cause to pass over through water;
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and ye have washed your garments on the seventh day, and have been clean, and afterwards ye come in unto the camp.'
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • Numbers 25:1

    And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,
    from verse 16

  • Numbers 25:9

    and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.
    from verse 16

  • 2 Peter 2:15

    having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,
    from verse 16

  • Revelation 2:14

    `But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;
    from verse 16

  • Numbers 19:9

    `And a clean man hath gathered the ashes of the cow, and hath placed at the outside of the camp, in a clean place, and it hath become to the company of the sons of Israel a charge for waters of separation--it is a cleansing ;
    from verse 23

  • 1 Samuel 15:3

    Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'
    from verse 15

  • Deuteronomy 4:3

    `Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;
    from verse 16

  • Joshua 22:17

    Is the iniquity of Peor little to us, from which we have not been cleansed till this day--and the plague is in the company of Jehovah,
    from verse 16

  • Numbers 24:14

    and, now, lo, I am going to my people; come, I counsel thee concerning that which this people doth to thy people, in the latter end of the days.'
    from verse 16

  • Numbers 19:17

    and they have taken for the unclean person of the ashes of the burning of the cleansing , and he hath put upon it running water unto a vessel;
    from verse 23

  • Leviticus 11:25

    and anyone who is lifting up aught of their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening: --
    from verse 24

  • Numbers 5:2

    `Command the sons of Israel, and they send out of the camp every leper, and every one with an issue, and every one defiled by a body;
    from verse 13
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