17. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him.
18. But all the young girls, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
19. And you must abide outside the camp seven days: whosoever has killed any person, and whosoever has touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
20. And purify all your clothing, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
21. And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war who went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
22. Only the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23. Everything that can endure the fire, you shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of purification: and all that cannot endure the fire you shall make go through the water.
24. And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean, and afterward you 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 people and of animals, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: