6. Moses sent them to battle, one thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas, Eleazar the priest’s son, who carried the sanctuary equipment and the trumpets for sounding the alarm in his hand.
7. They battled against Midian as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
8. They killed the kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian, along with others slain. They also killed Balaam, Beor’s son, with the sword.
9. The Israelites took captive the Midianite women, their little ones, all their cattle, their herds, and their possessions.
10. They burned all the cities where they lived and their encampments.
11. They took all the spoils of war and the valuable property, both human and animal,
12. and they brought the captives, the valuable property, and the spoils of war to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the Israelite community, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
13. Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
14. Moses became angry with the commanders of the army, the officers of thousands and the officers of hundreds, who came back from the battle.
15. Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?
16. These very women, on Balaam’s advice, made the Israelites break faith with the Lord in the affair at Peor, so there was a plague among the Lord’s community.
17. Now kill every male child and every female who has known a man intimately by sleeping with him.
18. But all the young girls who have not known a man intimately by sleeping with him, spare for yourselves.
19. You will remain outside the camp for seven days. Everyone among you or your captives who has killed a person or touched a corpse must purify themselves on the third and seventh days.
20. You must also purify every garment, and everything made of leather, goats’ hair, or wood."
21. Eleazar the priest said to the men of battle who had gone out to war, "This is the regulation in the Instruction that the Lord commanded Moses:
22. Gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead—