The Scriptures 1998

Numbers 31:19-26 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

19. “And you, camp outside the camp seven days. Whoever has slain any being, and whoever has touched any slain, cleanse yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

20. “And cleanse every garment, and every object of leather and all the work of goats’ hair, and every object of wood.”

21. And El‛azar the priest said to the men of the campaign who went to the battle, “This is the law of the Torah which יהוה commanded Mosheh:

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

23. every object that passes through fire, you put through the fire, and it shall be clean; only, let it be cleansed with the water for uncleanness. And whatever does not pass through fire you pass through water.

24. “And you shall wash your garments on the seventh day and be clean, and afterwards come into the camp.”

25. And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

26. “Count up the plunder that was taken, of man and of beast, you and El‛azar the priest and the heads of the fathers of the congregation.