23. everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.
24. You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”
25. Then the Lord spoke to Moses:
26. “You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.
27. Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war – who went out to battle – and the other for all the community.
28. “You must exact a tribute for the Lord from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.
29. You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.
30. From the Israelites’ half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep – from every kind of animal – and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle.”