Verse 20
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 dead body was not obliged to wash his clothes, but the clean person that sprinkled the water of purification on him, Numbers 19:19 , some render the words, "purify yourselves" F4 תתחטאו "purgatote vos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; Vid. L'Empereur, Not. ad Kimchii οδοιπορια , p. 130. , "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 Leviticus 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 F5 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Celim, c. 2. sect. 1. 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 Leviticus 15:12 .
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