Numbers 31:19-24

Modern English Version

¹⁹ “And you stay outside the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day. ²⁰ Purify all your clothes, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”

²¹ Eleazar the priest said to the fighting men of Israel who went to the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses: ²² Only the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, ²³ everything that can go through the fire, you will make it go through the fire, and it will be clean, but some of it will be purified with the water of purification, and all that cannot pass through the fire you will make go through the water. ²⁴ You will wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be clean, and afterward you will come into the camp.”