Numbers 31:19

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19 You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.


Commentary on this verse  

By Henry MacLagan

Verse 19. Besides which it is also necessary that impure states shall be distinguished carefully from the goods and truths of the church until regeneration is accomplished; for in order that evil and falsity may be removed, purification therefrom must be continual in the course of regeneration, and must be completed at its close both as to hereditary and acquired states.