¹³ Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

²¹ Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted^(A) to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were.

¹² Early in the morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel.^(A) There he has set up a monument^(B) in his own honor and has turned and gone on down to Gilgal.”

²² Gold, silver, bronze, iron,^(A) tin, lead ²³ and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire,^(B) and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing.^(C) And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water. ²⁴ On the seventh day wash your clothes and you will be clean.^(D) Then you may come into the camp.^(E)”

¹² and brought the captives, spoils^(A) and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly^(B) at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.^(C)

¹¹ “Whoever touches a human corpse^(A) will be unclean for seven days.^(B)

² “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease^[a](A) or a discharge^(B) of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean^(C) because of a dead body.^(D)

¹⁷ After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer^(A) and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom^(B) came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).^(C)