OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 31:23

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everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.

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Verse 23. Expiation, with which even the vessels which had been through the fire, were to be purified, or washed, as the Hebrew Septuagint and so forth observe. Calmet.—Moses perhaps gave this ordinance by word of mouth, on this occasion, ( Menochius.) though something similar be prescribed before. Leviticus 6:28. 11:33. 15:12.

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