21 Eleazar the priest told the soldiers who had taken part in the battle: “This is the prescribed ritual which the Lord has commanded Moses:
22 gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin and lead—
23 whatever can stand fire—you shall put into the fire, that it may become clean; however, it must also be purified with water of purification. But whatever cannot stand fire you must put into the water.
24 On the seventh day you will wash your garments, and then you will again be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”
25 The Lord said to Moses:
26 With the help of Eleazar the priest and of the heads of the ancestral houses of the community, inventory all the spoils captured, human being and beast alike;
27 then divide the spoils between the warriors who went on the campaign and the whole community.