What does Numbers 31:23 mean?

Numbers 31:23 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Numbers 31:23 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

Numbers 31:23 Meaning

Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

Context Explained

21And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;

22Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

23Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

24And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

25And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Key Themes

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Source: Numbers 31:23