Numbers 31:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

And remain outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתֶּ֗ם חֲנ֛וּ מִח֥וּץ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖ה שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים כֹּל֩ הֹרֵ֨ג נֶ֜פֶשׁ וְכֹ֣ל ׀ נֹגֵ֣עַ בֶּֽחָלָ֗ל תִּֽתְחַטְּא֞וּ בַּיּ֤וֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי֙ וּבַיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י אַתֶּ֖ם וּשְׁבִיכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And ʾattem ḥănû outside to-the-maḥăneh seven yāmîm; all hōrēg nepeš and all nōgēaʿ in-the-ḥālāl titḥaṭṭəʾû in-the-yôm the-third and-in-the-yôm the-seventh, you and-your-šəbîkem.

Grammar Details

• *ʾattem*: 2nd person masculine plural pronoun - you
• *ḥănû*: imperative, 2nd person masculine plural - encamp/remain
• *maḥăneh*: masculine singular noun with definite article - camp
• *yāmîm*: masculine plural noun - days
• *hōrēg*: Qal participle, masculine singular - killing/slaying
• *nepeš*: feminine singular noun - soul/person/life
• *nōgēaʿ*: Qal participle, masculine singular - touching
• *ḥālāl*: masculine singular noun - slain/corpse
• *titḥaṭṭəʾû*: Hithpael imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - purify yourselves
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun - day
• *šəbîkem*: masculine plural noun construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your captives

Word Meanings

• *ḥănû*: encamp/remain/dwell
• *nepeš*: soul/person/life/being
• *titḥaṭṭəʾû*: purify yourselves/cleanse yourselves/decontaminate yourselves
• *ḥālāl*: slain/corpse/dead body

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You must remain outside the camp for seven days. Anyone who has killed someone or touched a dead body must purify themselves on the third day and on the seventh day, both you and your captives.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And encamp{H2583} ye without{H2351} the camp{H4264} seven{H7651} days:{H3117} whosoever hath killed{H2026} any person,{H5315} and whosoever hath touched{H5060} any slain,{H2491} purify{H2398} yourselves on the third{H7992} day{H3117} and on the seventh{H7637} day,{H3117} ye and your captives.{H7628}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And do ye abide{H2583}{(H8798)} without{H2351} the camp{H4264} seven{H7651} days{H3117}: whosoever hath killed{H2026}{(H8802)} any person{H5315}, and whosoever hath touched{H5060}{(H8802)} any slain{H2491}, purify{H2398}{(H8691)} both yourselves and your captives{H7628} on the third{H7992} day{H3117}, and on the seventh{H7637} day{H3117}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And lodge without the hoste.vij. dayes all that haue killed any persone and all that haue twiched any dead body and purifye both youre selues and youre presoners the.iij. daye and the.vij.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And lodge ye without the hoost, all yt haue slayne any man, or touched the slayne, that on the thirde and seuenth daie ye maie purifie yor selues and those whom ye haue taken presoners.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And ye shal remaine without the host seuen dayes, all that haue killed any person, and all that haue touched any dead, and purifie both your selues and your prisoners the third day and the seuenth.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And ye shall remayne without the hoast seuen dayes, all that haue kylled any person, and all that haue touched any dead body, and purifie both your selues and your prisoners the thirde day and the seuenth.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Encamp you outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `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;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Purification After Battle“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

Referenced Verses

• Num 5:2 : 2 Command the children of Israel that they remove from the camp every leper, and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is defiled by the dead:
• Num 19:11-22 : 11 He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he does not purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. 13 Whoever touches the dead body of any man who is dead, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him. 14 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: all who come into the tent, and all who are in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. 15 And every open vessel, which has no covering bound on it, is unclean. 16 And whoever touches someone who is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. 17 And for an unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put there in a vessel: 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening. 20 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean. 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute to them, that he who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until evening. 22 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul who touches it shall be unclean until evening.
• 1 Chr 22:8 : 8 But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, You have shed much blood and have made great wars; you shall not build a house unto my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.