Numbers 31:20

WEB

As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves."

KJV

And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.

Commentary

And purify all your raiment,.... By washing them; and this may intend not so much their own wearing apparel, as the raiment they took off of the dead bodies of the Midianites, since the person that touched a de ad body was not obliged to wash his clothes, but the clean person that sprinkled the water of purification on him, Num 19:19 , some render the words, "purify yourselves" (d), "together with the raiment", &c. which seems to be the best version of them: and all that is made of skins; of any sort of creatures, as the covering of tents, shoes, bottles, &c. see Lev 11:32 . and all work of goats' hair; such as the covering of tents was also made of: and this, according to Jarchi and other Jewish writers (e) includes vessels made of the horns, hoofs, and bones of these creatures: and all things made of wood; as beds, cups, dishes, &c. all which might be purified by washing; see Lev 15:12 . (d) "purgatote vos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; Vid. L'Empereur, Not. ad Kimchii p. 130. (e) Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Celim, c. 2. sect. 1.