Numbers 31:21

21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This [is] the ordinance of the law which 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 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whoever hath killed any person, and whoever hath touched any slain, purify [both] yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

20 And purify all [your] raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood.

21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war 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 brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make [it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.