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

²¹ Now David came to the ^(A)two hundred men who had been so weary that they could not follow David, whom they also had made to stay at the Brook Besor. So they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near the people, he ^[a]greeted them.

¹² So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul went to ^(A)Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal.”

²² Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, ²³ everything that can endure fire, you shall put through the fire, and it shall be clean; and it shall be purified ^(A)with the water of purification. But all that cannot endure fire you shall put through water. ^24 (B)And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp.”

Return from the War

¹² Then they brought the captives, the booty, and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.

^11 (A)‘He who touches the dead ^[a]body of anyone shall be unclean seven days.

² “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every ^(A)leper, everyone who has a ^(B)discharge, and whoever becomes ^(C)defiled ^[a]by a corpse.

¹⁷ And the king of Sodom ^(A)went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the ^(B)King’s Valley), ^(C)after his return from the ^[a]defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him.