Numbers 31:19-24

Common English Bible

¹⁹ You will remain outside the camp for seven days. Everyone among you or your captives who has killed a person or touched a corpse must purify themselves on the third and seventh days. ²⁰ You must also purify every garment, and everything made of leather, goats’ hair, or wood.”

Instructions about the spoils of war

²¹ Eleazar the priest said to the men of battle who had gone out to war, “This is the regulation in the Instruction that the Lord commanded Moses: ²² Gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead— ²³ anything that can withstand fire—you will put through the fire and it will be clean. It will also be purified with the water of purification. Anything that isn’t able to withstand fire, you will immerse in water. ²⁴ You must wash your clothes on the seventh day and you will be clean. Afterward you may enter the camp.”