Numbers 31:23
Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and beast,.... The number of the females that were taken captive and spared, and of the cattle, the sheep, oxen, and asses:
thou, and Eleazar the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the water of impurity] Its preparation and use are described in ch. 19.
to go through water] i.e. ordinary pure water, not the -water of impurity" as R.V. suggests. Objects which will stand the fire…
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