15. And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women?
16. Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord.
17. Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately.
18. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.
19. And you, camp outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day.
20. You shall purify for yourselves every garment and every article of leather and all the work of goats' hair, and all articles of wood."
21. Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, "This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses:
22. only the gold and 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, but it shall be purified with water for impurity. But whatever cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water.