Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Numbers 31:23

Context
NETBible

everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, 1  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.

XREF

Le 11:32; Le 15:17; Nu 8:7; Nu 19:9,17; Isa 43:2; Zec 13:9; Mal 2:2,3; Mt 3:11; 1Co 3:13; Eph 5:26; Tit 3:5,6; 1Pe 1:7; 1Pe 3:21; 1Pe 4:12; Re 3:18

NET © Notes

sn Purification by fire is unique to this event. Making these metallic objects “pass through the fire” was not only a way of purifying (burning off impurities), but it seems to be a dedicatory rite as well to the Lord and his people. The aspect of passing through the fire is one used by these pagans for child sacrifice.



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