Numbers 31:20

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You must purify each garment and everything that is made of skin, everything made of goat’s hair, and everything made of wood.”

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  • Gen 35:2 : 2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him,“Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
  • Exod 19:10 : 10 The LORD said to Moses,“Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and make them wash their clothes
  • Num 19:14-16 : 14 “‘This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days. 15 And every open container that has no covering fastened on it is unclean. 16 And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.
  • Num 19:22 : 22 And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until evening.’”

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  • Num 31:23-25
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    23everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.

    24You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”

    25The Distribution of Spoils Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 31:19
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    19Purification 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.

  • Num 8:6-7
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    6“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.

    7And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

  • Lev 16:28
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    28and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

  • Exod 35:6-7
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    6blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, fine linen, goat’s hair,

    7ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,

  • Exod 25:4-5
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    4blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat’s hair,

    5ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,

  • Lev 14:8-9
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    8The Seven Days of Purification“The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.

    9When the seventh day comes he must shave all his hair– his head, his beard, his eyebrows, all his hair– and he must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and so be clean.

  • Lev 11:32
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    32Also, anything they fall on when they die will become unclean– any wood vessel or garment or article of leather or sackcloth. Any such vessel with which work is done must be immersed in water and will be unclean until the evening. Then it will become clean.

  • Exod 35:23
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    23Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, fine linen, goats’ hair, ram skins dyed red, or fine leather brought them.

  • Lev 13:57-59
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    57Then if it still appears again in the garment or the warp or the woof, or in any article of leather, it is an outbreak. Whatever has the infection in it you must burn up in the fire.

    58But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”

    59Summary of Infection Regulations This is the law of the diseased infection in the garment of wool or linen, or the warp or woof, or any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.

  • Num 31:21
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    21Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle,“This is the ordinance of the law that the LORD commanded Moses:

  • Num 19:17-19
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    17“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.

    18Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.

    19And the clean person must sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he must purify him, and then he must wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and he will be clean in the evening.

  • Num 19:5-8
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    5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight– its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.

    6And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning.

    7Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and afterward he may come into the camp, but the priest will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

    8The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

  • Lev 13:47-48
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    47Infections in Garments, Cloth, or Leather“When a garment has a diseased infection in it, whether a wool or linen garment,

    48or in the warp or woof of the linen or the wool, or in leather or anything made of leather,

  • Lev 13:51-52
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    51He must then examine the infection on the seventh day. If the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the leather– whatever the article into which the leather was made– the infection is a malignant disease. It is unclean.

    52He must burn the garment or the warp or the woof, whether wool or linen, or any article of leather which has the infection in it. Because it is a malignant disease it must be burned up in the fire.

  • Lev 15:17
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    17and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.

  • Num 19:12
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    12He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean.

  • Exod 31:10
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    10the woven garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons, to minister as priests,

  • Lev 15:31
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    31Summary of Purification Regulations for Bodily Discharges“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

  • Lev 6:27
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    27Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.

  • Lev 16:30
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    30for on this day atonement is to be made for you to cleanse you from all your sins; you must be clean before the LORD.

  • Lev 16:26
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    26and the one who sent the goat away to Azazel must wash his clothes, bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

  • Exod 19:10
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    10The LORD said to Moses,“Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and make them wash their clothes

  • Lev 11:25
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    25and anyone who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 4:12
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    12all the rest of the bull– he must bring outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ash pile, and he must burn it on a wood fire; it must be burned on the fatty ash pile.

  • Exod 26:14
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    14“You are to make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather.

  • Lev 11:28
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    28and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

  • Num 4:12
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    12Then they must take all the utensils of the service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on a carrying beam.

  • Lev 15:27
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    27and anyone who touches them will be unclean, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Exod 19:14
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    14Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

  • Lev 17:15-16
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    15Regulations for Eating Carcasses“‘Any person who eats an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts, whether a native citizen or a resident foreigner, must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening; then he becomes clean.

    16But if he does not wash his clothes and does not bathe his body, he will bear his punishment for iniquity.’”

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    34and the coverings of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the protecting curtain;

  • Lev 6:11
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    11Then he must take off his clothes and put on other clothes, and he must bring the fatty ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place,

  • Exod 30:29
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    29So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.