21. Then Eleazar the priest said to the men in the army who had gone to battle: “This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded Moses:
22. only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23. everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless, it shall also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water.
24. You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp.”
25. The Lord said to Moses,
26. “Take the count of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation,
27. and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.
28. And levy for the Lord a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks.
29. Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the Lord.
30. And from the people of Israel’s half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the Lord.”