7. They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses. They killed every male.
8. They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
9. The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.
10. All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
11. They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.
12. They brought the captives, and the prey, and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
13. Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
14. Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
15. Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?
16. Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was amongst the congregation of the Lord.
17. Now therefore kill every male amongst the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
18. But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
19. “Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
20. You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”
21. Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses:
22. however the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23. everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
24. You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”
25. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
26. “Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;
27. and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.