16 Behold, these women caused the Israelites, by the word of Balaam, to be in apostasy against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the plague was among the community of Yahweh.
17 Now kill every male among the little children, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man.
18 But all the females who have not had sexual intercourse with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
19 And you, camp outside the camp seven days; all who killed a person and all who touched the slain purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
20 You will purify yourselves and every garment and every object of hide and all the work of goats’ hair, and every object of wood.”
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—