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Wesley's Explanatory Notes on Numbers 31:20

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John Wesley (1703–1791) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Your raiment - Namely, your spoil and prey. All work - All which had contracted some ceremonial uncleanness either from the dead bodies which wore them, or the tents or houses where they were, in which such dead bodies lay, or from the touch of the Israelitish soldiers, who were legally defiled by the slaughters they made. Numbers 31:27
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