Numbers 31:18-28

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
23 can all withstand fire, so that you are indeed to purify everything made of these materials by having them pass through fire; nevertheless they must also be purified with the water for purification. Everything that can't withstand fire you are to have go through the water.
24 On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean; after that you may enter the camp."
25 ADONAI said to Moshe,
26 "Take all the booty, both people and animals, you, El'azar the cohen and the leaders of clans in the community;
27 and divide the booty into two parts: half for the experienced soldiers who went out to battle, and half for the rest of the community.
28 From the portion of the soldiers who went out to battle, levy a tax for ADONAI consisting of one-five-hundredth of the persons, cattle, donkeys and sheep;
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