13. And Moses and Eleazar, the priest, and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet them outside the camp.
14. And Moses was angry with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds who returned from the battle.
15. And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16. Behold, these caused the sons of Israel through the counsel of Balaam to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor for which there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
17. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones and kill every woman that has known a man by lying with him.
18. But all the female children that have not known a man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.
19. And ye must abide outside the camp seven days; and whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any dead body ye shall remove the sin from them on the third and on the seventh day, both of yourselves and of your captives.
20. Likewise remove all sin from all your clothing and all that is made of skins and all work of goats’ hair and every vessel made of wood.
21. And 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;
22. certainly the gold and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23. every thing that may endure the fire, ye shall cause to pass through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless, ye shall remove the sin with the water of separation; and all that does not endure the fire ye shall cause to go through the water.
24. Ye shall also wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterwards ye shall come into the camp.
25. And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,
26. Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou and Eleazar, the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the congregation,
27. and divide the prey into two parts between those that took the part in the war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
28. And offer a tribute unto the Lord from the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons and of the oxen and of the asses and of the sheep.