Numbers 31:12-22

12 and brought the captives, booty and spoil to Moshe, El'azar the cohen and the community of Isra'el in the camp on the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden across from Yericho.
13 Moshe, El'azar the cohen and all the community leaders went to meet them outside the camp.
14 But Moshe was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds coming in from the battlefield.
15 Moshe asked them, "You let the women live?
16 Why, these are the ones who - because of Bil'am's advice -caused the people of Isra'el to rebel, breaking faith with ADONAI in the P'or incident, so that the plague broke out among ADONAI's community!
17 Now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has ever slept with a man.
18 But the young girls who have never slept with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
19 Pitch your tents outside the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed a person or touched the corpse of someone slain, purify yourselves on the third and seventh days, you and your captives.
20 Also purify every garment, whether of skin or goat's hair, and everything made of wood."
21 El'azar the cohen said to the soldiers who had gone to the front, "This is the regulation from the Torah which ADONAI has ordered Moshe.
22 Even though gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead
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