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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 31:23

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, etc.] Either through the smoke of the fire, and so be purified by suffumigation; or be put into the fire itself, where though they might be melted as the above things, yet not consumed as raiment, and vessels of skins, goats’ hair, and wood, would be: and it shall be clean; accounted so: nevertheless, it shall be purified with the water of separation; with the water mixed with the ashes of the red heifer burnt, and sprinkled on it; (see <041909> Numbers 19:9) and all that abideth not the fire; without being consumed, as whatsoever is of wood, etc. ye shall make go through the water; dip them in it, and rinse them there with a quantity sufficient; which the Targum of Jonathan says is forty seahs of water.
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