Numbers 31:19-24

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁹ “All of you who have killed a person or touched a slain body shall stay outside of the camp for seven days. Purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day. ²⁰ Also purify every garment, every leather item, everything made of goat hair, and every item of wood.”

²¹ Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “These are the regulations which the Lord has commanded Moses: ²² The gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead ²³ (everything that can withstand fire) you must be sure to pass through the fire, and it will be clean. It also is to be purified with the water for removing impurity. Everything that cannot withstand fire, you are to pass through the water. ²⁴ You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be clean. After that, you may come into the camp.”