20. Also purify everything: garments, leather goods, things made of goat hair, and every article of wood.”
21. Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone to battle, “This is the legal statute the Lord commanded Moses:
22. Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead —
23. everything that can withstand fire — you are to pass through fire, and it will be clean. It must still be purified with the purification water. Anything that cannot withstand fire, pass through the water.
24. On the seventh day wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”
25. The Lord told Moses,
26. “You, Eleazar the priest, and the family leaders of the community are to take a count of what was captured, man and beast.
27. Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to war and the entire community.
28. Set aside a tribute for the Lord from what belongs to the fighting men who went out to war: one out of every 500 humans, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.