Lexham English Bible

Numbers 31:21-26 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

21. Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of the battle who came from the war, “This is the decree of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses.

22. Only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead—

23. everything that will go through the fire—you will pass through the fire, and it will be clean, and only in waters of impurity will it be purified. Whatever does not go into the fire you will pass through the waters.

24. And you will wash your garments on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you will come into the camp.”

25. Yahweh said to Moses, saying,

26. “You and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the families of the community, take count of the war-booty that was captured, both humans and the domestic animals;