Numbers 31:21

21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone to battle, "This is the legal statute the Lord commanded Moses:

Numbers 31:21 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:21

And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war, which went to
the battle
To all the soldiers, officers, and common men:

this is the ordinance of the law, which the Lord commanded Moses;
concerning the purification of unclean persons and things, hereby confirming what Moses had said.

Numbers 31:21 In-Context

19 "You are to remain outside the camp for seven days. All of you and your prisoners who have killed a person or touched the dead are to purify yourselves on the third day and the seventh day.

20 Also purify everything: garments, leather goods, things made of goat hair, and every article of wood."

21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone to battle, "This is the legal statute the Lord commanded Moses:

22 Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead-

23 everything that can withstand fire-put through fire, and it will be clean. It must still be purified with the purification water. Anything that cannot withstand fire, put through the water.