18 However, all the [a]girls who have not known a [b]man intimately, keep alive for yourselves. 19 (A)And as for you, camp outside the camp for seven days; whoever has killed a person and whoever has touched anyone killed, purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day. 20 And you shall purify for yourselves every garment, every article of leather, every work of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:18 Lit children among the women
  2. Numbers 31:18 Lit man’s bed

18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

19 “Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed(A) must stay outside the camp seven days.(B) On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves(C) and your captives. 20 Purify every garment(D) as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.(E)

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