22. Any gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead—
23. anything that won’t burn—must be put through fire in order to make it clean. Then it must also be put through the ritual water in order to take away its sin. Whatever might burn must ⌊only⌋ be put through the ritual water.
24. On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. Then you may come into the camp.”
25. The Lord said to Moses,
26. “You, the priest Eleazar, and the heads of the families of the community need to count all the loot, including the people and animals you captured.
27. Divide the loot between the soldiers who served in the war and the rest of the community.
28. Collect a tax for the Lord. From the soldiers who served in the war collect one out of every 500 things. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.
29. Collect all these things from the soldiers’ half of the loot, and give them to the priest Eleazar as a contribution to the Lord.
30. From the Israelites’ half of the loot, collect one out of every 50 things. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, and every other kind of animal. Give them to the Levites who are in charge of the work done at the Lord’s tent.”
31. Moses and the priest Eleazar did as the Lord commanded Moses.
32. This is the loot that was left from everything that the troops took: 675,000 sheep and goats,