Numbers 31:23-25

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²³ everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water of impurity; and whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water. ²⁴ You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.”

Disposition of Captives and Booty

²⁵ The Lord said to Moses,